← SONGS

Earth burns red · Quarter life crisis

Earth burns red · Quarter life crisis
EXERCISE 21 OF 40
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 10-30)
41 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDMUBVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Earth burns red on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-44, snare through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52 and snare through bars 53-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---x---|
Earth burns red -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-55 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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