Things We Lost In The Fire · Bastille

121 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 10 more places -- 44.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 74.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 6 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-73.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Things We Lost In The Fire?

134 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 Things We Lost In The Fire hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Things We Lost In The Fire?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 74.

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