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

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART S1
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCES5S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burning Down The Opera Dead And Buried - Episode II on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
37/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, silence through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-61 and silence through bars 62-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |o-xxx-----------|
SD |------x---x-----|
FT |--------------x-|
BD |x-xxx-x---x---x-|
Burning Down The Opera Dead And Buried - Episode II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 6-61 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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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