Black Flame Candle · Devil Master

110 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 24-25 and 27-30, and 12 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BLACK FLAME CANDLE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 18 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 42-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time, 24 are fills, 17 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-60.

PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART G
8 groovesHALGS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Flame Candle?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Black Flame Candle hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Flame Candle?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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