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Los Angeles Is Burning · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 6 OF 52
Groove B -- Part B
82 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Los Angeles Is Burning on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-6, toms through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-27, ride through bars 28-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-63, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Los Angeles Is Burning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, S -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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