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Burn · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 20 OF 122
Fill at bar 24 (a small one)
140 / 291 BARS COVERED
0 / 122 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AI
PART AE
CHORUS 4
14 groovesEAEAAFAI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 3
JOIN · 22
LINK · 13
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-86, ride through bars 87-90, snare through bars 91-92, ride through bars 93-98 and snare through bars 99-106, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------|
Burn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 94 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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