Burden In My Hand (Album Version) · Soundgarden

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10 and 30, and 6 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BURDEN IN MY HAND (ALBUM VERSION) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 29, 33, 37 and 18 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART P
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDPIUC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burden In My Hand (Album Version)?

93 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 Burden In My Hand (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 In My Hand (Album Version)?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 29, 33, 37 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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