Los Angeles Is Burning · Bad Religion

131 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 36-38, and 12 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LOS ANGELES IS BURNING · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 37 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 7 sections: 60 keep time, 43 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-26.

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

Questions

What BPM is Los Angeles Is Burning?

160 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 Los Angeles Is Burning hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 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 Los Angeles Is Burning?

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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