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Shouting Fire At A Funeral · Jeff Loomis

EXERCISE 33 OF 75
Fill at bar 41 and 77 (a small one)
113 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART S2
PART E
PART I
PART E
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART E
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNEABSI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shouting Fire At A Funeral on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-61, ride through bars 62-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-121, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42-47 and 70-76, and 3 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    36               37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-----|--x-----x-x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
Shouting Fire At A Funeral -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- N, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-55 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-37 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-54 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shouting Fire At A Funeral?

128 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 Shouting Fire At A Funeral hard to play on drums?

59 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Shouting Fire At A Funeral?

20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED