Beds Are Burning · Midnight Oil

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-27, 31-50 and 53-78, and 3 more places -- 82.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BEDS ARE BURNING · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 82.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 6 sections: 113 keep time, 3 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-78.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesDHES3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beds Are Burning?

120 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 Beds Are Burning 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Beds Are Burning?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 82.

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