Burning Heart · Survivor

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 12-19 and 24, and 10 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BURNING HEART · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 51, 59, 67 and 6 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-19.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Heart?

98 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 Heart hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 51, 59, 67 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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