Spread Your Fire · Angra

187 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-40, 45-48 and 73-76, and 5 more places -- 16.8% 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
SPREAD YOUR FIRE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 35 and 25 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 28 sections: 123 keep time, 31 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-34.

CHORUS
PART L
PART A
PART L
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEOLAT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spread Your 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 Spread Your Fire hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Spread Your Fire?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 35 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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