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Through The Fire And Flames · Dragonforce

EXERCISE 5 OF 137
Fill at bar 28 (a small one)
144 / 359 BARS COVERED
0 / 137 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
14 groovesEHYRA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 41
LAND · 41
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 12
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Through The Fire And Flames on drums

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.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
359
LENGTH
7:11
DIFFICULTY
90/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-47 and ride through bars 48-55, and 42 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 95 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-25 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part S5 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-57 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 359 BARS ANALYSED