Through The Fire And Flames · Dragonforce

359 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 7:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
359
LENGTH
7:11
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 41-47 and 73-76, and 10 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THROUGH THE FIRE AND FLAMES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

41 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 2, 10, 16, 23, 24, 26 and 81 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

37 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

359 bars across 44 sections: 176 keep time, 89 are fills, 44 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-126.

14 groovesEHYRA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Through The Fire And Flames?

200 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 Through The Fire And Flames hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

359 bars, about 7:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 26 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 Through The Fire And Flames?

41 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 2, 10, 16, 23, 24, 26 and 81 more.

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