Wildfires · Sault

98 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 41-52 and 57-84, and 1 more place -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
WILDFIRES · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 87 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-92.

PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wildfires?

115 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 Wildfires hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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