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Set The World Afire · Megadeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 85
Groove P -- Part P
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART I
PART O
PART R
CHORUS
PART X
PART AD
PART AI
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
19 groovesUOS1XD+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 11
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Set The World Afire on drums

241 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 12:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
12:15
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-38, silence through bars 39-45, hi-hat through bars 46-69, ride through bars 70-77 and silence through bars 78-87, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89, 91 and 93, and 13 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    89
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|
Set The World Afire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 23, 25, 35, 53, 87, 95 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- P, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-55 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-105 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Set The World Afire?

80 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 The World Afire hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 12:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Set The World Afire?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 23, 25, 35, 53, 87, 95 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED