Wildfire · Against The Current

83 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-15, and 2 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 121 BPM
WILDFIRE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 22, 36, 44 and 10 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 13 sections: 53 keep time, 17 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-15.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART G
PART T
10 groovesBGTDA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wildfire?

121 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 Wildfire hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wildfire?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 22, 36, 44 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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