Burning In The Skies · Linkin Park

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 41-47 and 49-55, and 7 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BURNING IN THE SKIES · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 38, 40, 48, 56, 58 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-17.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
8 groovesDS9BFS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning In The Skies?

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 In The Skies hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Burning In The Skies?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 38, 40, 48, 56, 58 and 4 more.

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