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Burden In My Hand (Album Version) · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 29 OF 49
Join Part C to Part P (bars 41-43)
66 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART P
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burden In My Hand (Album Version) on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-29, ride through bars 30-43, hi-hat through bars 44-69 and ride through bars 70-88.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Burden In My Hand (Album Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-33 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-57 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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