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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

96

LENGTH

3:46

DIFFICULTY

56/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-18, hi-hat through bars 19-73, silence through bars 74-76, toms through bars 77-79 and silence through bars 80-96.

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
2. Bars 5-26 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S7 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.