Burning Down · Alex Warren

124 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-40, 45-60 and 62-70, and 1 more place -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BURNING DOWN · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 11 sections: 75 keep time, 1 is a fill, 12 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-70.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDS1HA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Down?

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

Is Burning Down hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Down?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.

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