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Let The Flames Begin · Paramore

EXERCISE 14 OF 54
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
69 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let The Flames Begin on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, toms through bars 17-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45, toms through bars 46-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-77, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H, O -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-70 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-46 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-95 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-102 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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