Burning Love · Elvis Presley

96 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 29-35, and 8 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BURNING LOVE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 20, 22, 24, 44, 46 and 8 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Love?

144 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 Love hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Love?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 20, 22, 24, 44, 46 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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