Set Fire To The Rain · Adele

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 29 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SET FIRE TO THE RAIN · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 27, 49, 50, 81, 82 and 4 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 10 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-75.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDCJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Set Fire To The Rain?

108 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 Set Fire To The Rain hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Set Fire To The Rain?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 27, 49, 50, 81, 82 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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