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EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove D -- Part D
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PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDAQPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let It Burn on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, toms through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-59, toms through bars 60-61, hi-hat through bars 62-97 and toms through bars 98-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 26-28, and 5 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Let It Burn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 59, 60, 61, 97, 98 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-81 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 79-85 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Let It Burn?

115 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 Let It Burn hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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 Let It Burn?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 59, 60, 61, 97, 98 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED