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Burden · Opeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 101
Groove AR -- Outro 2
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0 / 101 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART AH
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBARAHIU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 32
LAND · 32
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burden on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-49, snare through bars 50-72 and silence through bars 73-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-143, 145-147 and 149-151, and 4 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    137
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------g--g--|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Burden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

32 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22, 24, 31 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- AR, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-36 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burden?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 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?

32 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22, 24, 31 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED