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Burnout · Green Day

EXERCISE 14 OF 40
Groove M
64 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART J
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBSUJTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burnout on drums

94 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-5, 10-13 and 26-29, and 2 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-o-|x-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
Burnout -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 63 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase), S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burnout?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Burnout hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Burnout?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 63 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED