Burn Me With A Bible · Violent Vira

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 7 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BURN ME WITH A BIBLE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 31, 33 and 21 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 27 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-28.

PART B
PART H
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesNHBS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burn Me With A Bible?

97 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 Me With A Bible hard to play on drums?

57 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Me With A Bible?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 31, 33 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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