Burning Down The Opera Dead And Buried - Episode II · Atherakia

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 12 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BURNING DOWN THE OPERA DEAD AND BURIED - EPISODE II · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 80 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-61.

PART S1
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCES5S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Down The Opera Dead And Buried - Episode II?

120 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 Opera Dead And Buried - Episode II hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 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.

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