Burning Down The House · Talking Heads

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-108 -- 98% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE · BARS 9-10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 3 sections: 101 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-108.

OUTRO
3 groovesCS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Down The House?

105 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 Burning Down The House hard to play on drums?

50 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 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 Down The House?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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