BATHORY · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Born For Burning

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.

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:27
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 183 BPM
BORN FOR BURNING · BAR 14

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 47 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 137 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 137, 160 and 183 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Born For Burning use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 183 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 35% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 13-16, 19-26, 28-29 and 31-33, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Born For Burning hard?

44 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED