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This Fire Burns · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove K -- Chorus
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PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKEHS11V+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Fire Burns on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-23, snare through bars 24-35, ride through bars 36-43 and snare through bars 44-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-34, 52-62 and 82-88, and 1 more place -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
This Fire Burns -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 13, 35, 38, 39, 42 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- K, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-40 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-52 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-73 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-100 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Fire Burns?

140 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 This Fire Burns 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in This Fire Burns?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 13, 35, 38, 39, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED