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Black Flame · Bury Tomorrow

EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove F
32 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART Q
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesNQDGB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Flame on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-124, silence through bars 125-128 and snare through bars 129-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-38, 81-82 and 109-115, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Black Flame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 39, 40 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- N, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-70 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-102 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Flame?

149 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 Black Flame hard to play on drums?

49 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Black Flame?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 39, 40 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED