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Set The World On Fire · Symphony X

EXERCISE 1 OF 117
Groove W -- Part W
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0 / 117 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART X
PART AA
PART AH
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART X
PART AA
PART AH
PART W
PART I
PART BJ
PART BN
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFAAIAHBJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 34
LAND · 34
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Set The World On Fire on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, toms through bars 33-35, snare through bars 36-40, toms through bars 41-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-59, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Set The World On Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH, BJ -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-145 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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