ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames 16ths instead of 32nd drums on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 125 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 142
LENGTH: 4:33
DIFFICULTY: 72/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-13, snare through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20 and ride through bars 21-22, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-18, 21 and 57-58, and 1 more place -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                                               18
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------x-----------------------|------x-----------------x-----x-----------------|
RD |X-----X-----X-----X-----------------X-----X-----|X-----------X-----X-----------------------------|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|---x-----x-----x--------X-----X-----x--x--------|
T1 |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------x--x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--------------|

Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames 16ths instead of 32nd drums -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 18, 20, 22, 26, 28 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- O (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Bars 7-31 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
Bars 29-39 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part U -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
and 13 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames 16ths instead of 32nd drums?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames 16ths instead of 32nd drums hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames 16ths instead of 32nd drums?

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 18, 20, 22, 26, 28 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED