Burning Word · Black Ball Line

46 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10 and 13-20 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BURNING WORD · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 38.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 4 sections: 39 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEFS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Word?

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 Word hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Word?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 46 BARS ANALYSED
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