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Burn The Earth · Dethklok

EXERCISE 3 OF 37
Groove B -- Part B
20 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART B
PART E
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS13AKBE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn The Earth on drums

89 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, snare through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, toms through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-46 and toms through bars 47-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 13-16 and 31-34, and 1 more place -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-|
Burn The Earth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 42, 49, 50 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-23 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-31 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-34 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-43 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burn The Earth?

120 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Earth hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 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 The Earth?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 42, 49, 50 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED