Flicker Flame · Luke Bowman

122 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
18/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 37-38 and 59-60, and 4 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
FLICKER FLAME · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 19 sections: 85 keep time and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-77.

CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
BREAK 4
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
CHORUS 9
10 groovesCS4S8S10S12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flicker Flame?

118 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 Flicker Flame hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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