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Burden In My Hand · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 7 OF 34
Groove G -- Chorus
66 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burden In My Hand on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-27, toms through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-31, toms through bars 32-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-49, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
Burden In My Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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