Burn down my house · Architects

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 37-43, and 1 more place -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BURN DOWN MY HOUSE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44 and 52.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 6 sections: 50 keep time, 5 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-68.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burn down my house?

84 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 Burn down my house hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 down my house?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44 and 52.

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