Fire
The Jimi Hendrix Experience · 1967
Mitchell's fast, busy jazz-rooted fills make it a study in fluid hand technique.
- Artist
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Year
- 1967
- Genre
- psychedelic rock
- Drummer
- Mitch Mitchell
- Tempo
- 168 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- jazz-influenced rock
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
100bpm
Building
134bpm
Target
168bpm
The feel
A jazz-influenced rock in 4/4 around 168 BPM. It's fast — economy of motion is everything; speed comes from relaxation, not force.
What to watch
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
How to learn it
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