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Let The Flames Begin (Live) · Paramore

EXERCISE 15 OF 99
Run C1 · Part C (bars 9-15)
64 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let The Flames Begin (Live) on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, silence through bars 35-44, hi-hat through bars 45-49, snare through bars 50-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-61, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Let The Flames Begin (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- S, X -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 16-48 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-170 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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