L.A Is Burning · Bad Religion

131 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32-34, and 20 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
L.A IS BURNING · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 21 and 27 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 12 sections: 60 keep time, 33 are fills and 26 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-20.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
4 groovesLHBUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is L.A Is Burning?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is L.A Is Burning hard to play on drums?

60 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 L.A Is Burning?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 21 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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