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Burn · Nine Inch Nails

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 9 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, toms through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-84 and toms through bars 85-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-56 and 65-84 -- 65.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Burn?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED