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Beds Are Burning v2 · Midnight Oil

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 13 PASSED · 111 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesES4S5S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beds Are Burning v2 on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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
128
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-79, silence through bars 80-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-125, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 33-47 and 49-79, and 2 more places -- 88.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Beds Are Burning v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 29, 30 and 127.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Beds Are Burning v2?

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 v2 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?

128 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Beds Are Burning v2?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 29, 30 and 127.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED