ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burning Building on drums

177 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 180 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 177
LENGTH: 3:56
DIFFICULTY: 64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-29, toms through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-38, 77-81 and 156-160 -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34                                                               35
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |--------o---------------------------------------x---------------|x---------------------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x---------------------------------------|--------------------x-----------x-------x-----------------------|
T1 |----------------x-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
T2 |----x-------------------x---------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x-------|
FT |x---x-----------x-----------------------------------------------|----------------x---x-------x---x-------x---x-------------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------x-----------x---------------x-----------x-------|

Burning Building -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 51 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- AO, J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Bars 1-9 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part AA -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
and 9 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Burning Building?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Burning Building hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Burning Building?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 51 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED