Born For Burning · Bathory

65 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 1:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:27
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 19-26 and 28-29, and 2 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BORN FOR BURNING · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 30.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-64.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCGBS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born For Burning?

183 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 Born For Burning hard to play on drums?

47 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Born For Burning?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 30.

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