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To The Fire · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 9 PASSED · 69 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To The Fire on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-2 and toms through bars 3-99.

The beat

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.

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SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
FT |x------x--------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
To The Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED