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Let Me Burn · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 9 OF 70
Groove A -- Part A
60 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let Me Burn on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48, toms through bars 49-50 and snare through bars 51-57, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----------|
Let Me Burn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-24 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-46 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-71 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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