Flamewall · Cametek

262 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 7:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
7:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 67-72 and 74-76, and 8 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FLAMEWALL · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 49 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

262 bars across 36 sections: 139 keep time, 55 are fills, 16 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-43.

PART M
CHORUS 4
PART S17
PART I
22 groovesJNIS17M+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flamewall?

150 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 Flamewall hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 7:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Flamewall?

33 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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