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Close To The Flame · HIM

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Close To The Flame on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-81.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-36 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED