Let The Flames Begin (Live) · Paramore

214 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58 and 86-88, and 4 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LET THE FLAMES BEGIN (LIVE) · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 13, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 47 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 27-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 19 sections: 98 keep time, 53 are fills, 12 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-124.

PART E
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART S15
PART BG
OUTRO 2
16 groovesSAMEBGBO+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let The Flames Begin (Live)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Let The Flames Begin (Live) hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Let The Flames Begin (Live)?

25 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 13, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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