Close To The Flame · HIM

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 49-55 and 57-62, and 1 more place -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
CLOSE TO THE FLAME · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 48, 63 and 80.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 5 sections: 59 keep time, 4 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-23.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Close To The Flame?

88 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 Close To The Flame hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Close To The Flame?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 48, 63 and 80.

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