Let The World Burn Bass · Chris Grey

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-25, 27-31 and 33, and 3 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
LET THE WORLD BURN BASS · BARS 19-20
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 8 sections: 48 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-58.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesFDAS2S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let The World Burn Bass?

93 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 The World Burn Bass hard to play on drums?

30 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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