Weekend at the Fire Academy · Orchid

45 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 1:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:01
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 and 25-32 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 178 BPM
WEEKEND AT THE FIRE ACADEMY · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 7 sections: 32 keep time, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGDS1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weekend at the Fire Academy?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Weekend at the Fire Academy hard to play on drums?

60 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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