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Like Flames · Mindaryn

Like Flames · Mindaryn
EXERCISE 5 OF 30
3-bar fill at bar 2
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0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like Flames on drums

63 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-58 and snare through bars 59-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 23-29, and 6 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o---o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Like Flames -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Like Flames?

175 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 Like Flames hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Like Flames?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED