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Burying Brightness · Boundaries

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
41 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART H
PART N
PART P
PART R
PART L
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZREHAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 5
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Burying Brightness on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-24, silence through bars 25-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-62 and silence through bars 63-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-80, 104 and 106, and 5 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Burying Brightness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- Z, R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part S7 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Burying Brightness?

150 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 Burying Brightness hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Burying Brightness?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED