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Bury Me In Smoke · Down

EXERCISE 33 OF 79
Fill at bar 141, 155, 187 and 215 (a small one)
212 / 247 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART G, CHORUS 7
PART E
PART E
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART Q
PART G
CHORUS 7
PART G
12 groovesDEOGQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bury Me In Smoke on drums

247 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 7:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
7:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48 and snare through bars 49-52, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-10 and 12-13, and 37 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Bury Me In Smoke -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 56, 96, 100 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-101 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 98-137 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 134-146 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bury Me In Smoke?

141 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 Bury Me In Smoke hard to play on drums?

48 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 7:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bury Me In Smoke?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 56, 96, 100 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED