To The Fire · Bon Jovi

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 13 more places -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TO THE FIRE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 50, 78, 82 and 83.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars: 94 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-77.

OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To The Fire?

100 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 To The Fire hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in To The Fire?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 50, 78, 82 and 83.

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