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Black Flame Candle · Devil Master

Black Flame Candle · Devil Master
EXERCISE 16 OF 33
Run H1 · Chorus (bars 17-52)
83 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART G
8 groovesHALGS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Flame Candle on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-41, toms through bars 42-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-52, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 94-106 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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