Burning Pile · Mother Mother

71 bars, 3:58, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 24 and 31-34, and 2 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BURNING PILE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 45.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 6 sections: 53 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-63.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBLAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Pile?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Burning Pile hard to play on drums?

54 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pile?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 45.

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