Shaped by Fire · As I Lay Dying

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 10 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SHAPED BY FIRE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18 and 31 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time, 37 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-109.

PART C
CHORUS
PART S
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECACSAI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shaped by Fire?

120 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 Shaped by Fire hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shaped by Fire?

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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