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Burn it Down · Witchunter

Burn it Down · Witchunter
EXERCISE 21 OF 40
Groove N -- Part N
92 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 3
8 groovesACFPN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn it Down on drums

116 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
95/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-46, ride through bars 47-54, snare through bars 55-61 and kick and crashes through bars 62-63, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-25 and 30-46, and 2 more places -- 60.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Burn it Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 29, 54, 58, 59, 60 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-83 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burn it Down?

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

Is Burn it Down hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 29, 54, 58, 59, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED