Set The World On Fire · Symphony X

232 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 27 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SET THE WORLD ON FIRE · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

34 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 72 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 36-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

31 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 21 sections: 113 keep time, 78 are fills, 12 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-95.

CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART I
PART BJ
PART BN
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFAAIAHBJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Set The World On Fire?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Set The World On Fire hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 On Fire?

34 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 72 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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