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Burnin' For You · Blue Öyster Cult

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIBDKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burnin' For You on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-15, ride through bars 16-31, hi-hat through bars 32-49, snare through bars 50-53 and toms through bars 54-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 24-30 and 62-68, and 2 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Burnin' For You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 31, 43, 47, 77, 89 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- F, I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-49 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-91 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 96-120 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burnin' For You?

134 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 Burnin' For You hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Burnin' For You?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 31, 43, 47, 77, 89 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED