Let Me Burn · Whitechapel

153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 15 and 19-21, and 10 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
LET ME BURN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 26, 38, 39, 42, 49 and 20 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 19 sections: 78 keep time, 26 are fills, 24 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-119.

PART D
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART AN
BREAK 4
OUTRO
15 groovesCRANAID+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let Me Burn?

140 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 Let Me Burn hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Me Burn?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 26, 38, 39, 42, 49 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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