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Wildfire · Against The Current

Wildfire · Against The Current
EXERCISE 10 OF 37
Groove F
58 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wildfire on drums

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

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 3-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-50, toms through bars 51-52, snare through bars 53-58 and toms through bars 59-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Wildfire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 25-53 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-76 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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