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The Flame · Cheap Trick

EXERCISE 7 OF 19
Groove E
63 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFS1S4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Flame on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-25, silence through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-43 and toms through bars 44-45, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-23, 46-62 and 64-78, and 1 more place -- 70.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 6, 24, 44, 45, 79 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-35 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Flame?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Flame hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 The Flame?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 6, 24, 44, 45, 79 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED