This Fire · Franz Ferdinand

141 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-44, 67-80 and 82, and 2 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
THIS FIRE · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 66, 106, 113, 114 and 138.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 113 keep time, 7 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 3
9 groovesDAFIG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Fire?

138 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 hard to play on drums?

62 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 66, 106, 113, 114 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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