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Burn Bright · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove K -- Chorus
0 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 50 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKBNXAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn Bright on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-32, snare through bars 33-47, toms through bars 48-55, hi-hat through bars 56-71 and snare through bars 72-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-47 and 76-82, and 5 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Burn Bright -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 55, 63 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- K, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-64 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burn Bright?

130 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 Burn Bright hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Burn Bright?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 55, 63 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED