Burning Heart · Dragonforce

323 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 5:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
323
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 68-69, and 12 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BURNING HEART · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 21, 23, 30 and 45 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

323 bars across 41 sections: 180 keep time, 51 are fills, 17 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 175-187.

PART U
PART AF
24 groovesHUCRAF+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Heart?

225 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 Heart hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

323 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 100 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Heart?

24 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 21, 23, 30 and 45 more.

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