Burnin' Leather · Bathory

109 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-31 and 37-55, and 3 more places -- 72.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BURNIN' LEATHER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 81, 82, 86 and 106.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 6 sections: 95 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-55.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burnin' Leather?

130 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' Leather hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 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 Burnin' Leather?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 81, 82, 86 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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