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Burnin' Leather · Bathory

EXERCISE 16 OF 20
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 85-87)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burnin' Leather on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-76, snare through bars 77-82, hi-hat through bars 83-86, ride through bars 87-94, hi-hat through bars 95-106 and kick and crashes through bars 107-109.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-83 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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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