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Wildfire · Periphery

EXERCISE 16 OF 80
6-bar fill at bar 12
71 / 236 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART J
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wildfire on drums

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.

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

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

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-25, toms through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-59, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    163
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-ggx-ggx-ggx-gg|
Wildfire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- CA -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AD (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-28 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part S5 and Part AF -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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