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Beds Are Burning · Midnight Oil

EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
126 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 127 BARS LIT
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHES3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beds Are Burning on drums

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

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-127.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Beds Are Burning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 77-115 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 114-127 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED