Eternal Flame · The Bangles

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-71 -- 97.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
ETERNAL FLAME · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars: 71 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-71.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternal Flame?

82 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 Eternal Flame hard to play on drums?

37 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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