Let The Flames Begin · Paramore

118 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 46-52, and 1 more place -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 161 BPM
LET THE FLAMES BEGIN · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 36, 37 and 13 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-83.

PART B
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHOVBK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let The Flames Begin?

161 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 hard to play on drums?

47 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Let The Flames Begin?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 36, 37 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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