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the purging fire · Uada

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 75 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART AE
CHORUS 6
PART AE
CHORUS 7
14 groovesEAEAKN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the purging fire on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
the purging fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-37 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-93 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 106-113 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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