Wildfire · Periphery

236 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 163-169 and 172-180 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
WILDFIRE · BAR 163
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 101 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 3-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 12-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 19-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 19 sections: 57 keep time, 107 are fills, 30 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 205-214.

PART N
PART AF
PART AN
PART AU
CHORUS 3
PART AC
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
14 groovesBAUS15ANAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wildfire?

145 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?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Wildfire?

18 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 101 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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