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Beyond the Flames (accurate) · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove E -- Part E
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PART A
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
7 groovesIEAZS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beyond the Flames (accurate) on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
90/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 57-63 -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Beyond the Flames (accurate) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-36 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beyond the Flames (accurate)?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Beyond the Flames (accurate) hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Beyond the Flames (accurate)?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED