Burnt (by the sun) · Bleed

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 18 and 23-24, and 1 more place -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BURNT (BY THE SUN) · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 31 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 6 sections: 23 keep time, 37 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-24.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesRGCALAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burnt (by the sun)?

96 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 Burnt (by the sun) hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 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 Burnt (by the sun)?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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