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Rising Fire · Abhinanda

EXERCISE 13 OF 35
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
39 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJQRBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rising Fire on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
99/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-9 and 11, and 8 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Rising Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 4, 13, 15, 16, 29 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rising Fire?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Rising Fire hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rising Fire?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 4, 13, 15, 16, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED