Burden In My Hand · Soundgarden

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BURDEN IN MY HAND · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 49, 71, 72, 86, 87 and 3 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 86-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 6 sections: 90 keep time, 9 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGAREK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burden In My Hand?

91 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 hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Burden In My Hand?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 49, 71, 72, 86, 87 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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