Burn It Down · Linkin Park

102 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 33-44 and 61-68, and 1 more place -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BURN IT DOWN · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 79 and 80.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-96.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
8 groovesDES1BS12+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burn It Down?

110 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 It Down hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 It Down?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 79 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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