Earth burns red · Quarter life crisis

61 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 1 more place -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
EARTH BURNS RED · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 28 and 6 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 6 sections: 39 keep time, 12 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDMUBVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Earth burns red?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Earth burns red hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

61 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Earth burns red?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 28 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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