Burn · Deep Purple

291 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 6:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 16, and 25 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BURN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 56 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

291 bars across 25 sections: 125 keep time, 62 are fills, 68 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 193-205.

CHORUS
PART AF
PART AI
PART AE
CHORUS 4
14 groovesEAEAAFAI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burn?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Burn hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

291 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 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?

27 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 291 BARS ANALYSED
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