Burden · As I Lay Dying

209 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 58-60, and 10 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 216 BPM
BURDEN · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 7, 15, 19, 23, 26, 27 and 52 more.

LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 216 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 23 sections: 99 keep time, 58 are fills, 24 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-88.

PART L
PART R
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AU
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
17 groovesXRAUIL+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burden?

216 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 Burden 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Burden?

21 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 7, 15, 19, 23, 26, 27 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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