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Set Fire To The Rain · Adele

EXERCISE 7 OF 26
2-bar fill at bar 26 and 1 more
74 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDCJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Set Fire To The Rain on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-106.

The beat

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.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------x-----x-x-x-|
T2 |------------------x-----------------------------|
FT |------------------------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Set Fire To The Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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