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Bridge Burning · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 9 OF 41
4-bar fill at bar 17 and 1 more
133 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesFGLS1D+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bridge Burning on drums

202 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-64, ride through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-90 and snare through bars 91-96, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-28, 31 and 73-79, and 12 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 32 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-33 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bridge Burning?

172 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 Bridge Burning hard to play on drums?

64 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bridge Burning?

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED