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Sex On Fire · Kings Of Leon

EXERCISE 20 OF 30
Join Part H to Outro (bars 104-106)
115 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDJHI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sex On Fire on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-98, kick and crashes through bars 99-105, toms through bars 106-112 and snare through bars 113-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-32, 42-55 and 74-87 -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sex On Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 89, 93, 113, 117 and 125.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-57 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 55-90 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 91-106 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 104-114 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sex On Fire?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sex On Fire hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sex On Fire?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 89, 93, 113, 117 and 125.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED