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Burn This Disco Out · Michael Jackson

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove Y -- Outro 2
0 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W, OUTRO 2
PART D
VERSE
PART R
VERSE 2
PART W
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGYRWL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burn This Disco Out on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82, 91-92 and 94-96, and 5 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xooxxxx-xoo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x-------x-------|
Burn This Disco Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 83 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burn This Disco Out?

115 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 This Disco Out hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 19 sittings, about 21 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 This Disco Out?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 83 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED