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This Fire · Franz Ferdinand

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Fire on drums

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

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-66, hi-hat through bars 67-98, kick and crashes through bars 99-100 and ride through bars 101-106, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x---x---x---o-|g-x---x---o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------xxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---xx--|
This Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D, A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-46 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-63 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-108 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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