the purging fire · Uada

281 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 5:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-29 and 65-71, and 9 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 195 BPM
THE PURGING FIRE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 37 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

281 bars across 27 sections: 183 keep time, 43 are fills, 24 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 226-234.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART AE
PART AE
CHORUS 7
14 groovesEAEAKN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the purging fire?

195 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 purging fire hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

281 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 30 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 purging fire?

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 281 BARS ANALYSED
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