The Flame Of Youth · Dragonforce

317 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

200 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

317

LENGTH

6:36

DIFFICULTY

86/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, ride through bars 27-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-80, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 59-65 and 67-71, and 24 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|

16 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 53 more.

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 16-28 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Bars 24-35 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 14 more sittings after that.