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The Fire Eternal · Entrenched

The Fire Eternal · Entrenched
EXERCISE 5 OF 52
Groove A -- Part A
36 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
10 groovesLHZAOC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Fire Eternal on drums

118 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-49, ride through bars 50-66, hi-hat through bars 67-74 and toms through bars 75-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 101-115 -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    102
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|
The Fire Eternal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 29, 30, 33, 34, 45 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- AO -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-78 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-18 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Fire Eternal?

200 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 The Fire Eternal hard to play on drums?

64 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 The Fire Eternal?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 29, 30, 33, 34, 45 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED