The Sacrificial Flame · Draconian

112 bars, 7:04, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 21 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
THE SACRIFICIAL FLAME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 18, 21, 22 and 35 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 27 keep time, 41 are fills, 31 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-52.

CHORUS
PART M
BREAK
PART S4
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAQMS3S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sacrificial Flame?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Sacrificial Flame hard to play on drums?

45 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 The Sacrificial Flame?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 18, 21, 22 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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