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Wildfires · Sault

Wildfires · Sault
EXERCISE 17 OF 20
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 91-93)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wildfires on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and ride through bars 29-32, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Wildfires -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-85 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-92 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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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