Flame Trees · Cold Chisel

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-48 and 50-64, and 5 more places -- 74.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FLAME TREES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 9, 49, 65 and 89.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 9 sections: 116 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-48.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesBFHEI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flame Trees?

120 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 Flame Trees hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flame Trees?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 9, 49, 65 and 89.

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