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Burning Pile · Mother Mother

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBLAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burning Pile on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, snare through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-41 and kick and crashes through bars 42-45, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Burning Pile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 13-46 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-65 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED