Perpetual Burn · Jason Becker

111 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-53 and 56-61 -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
PERPETUAL BURN · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 13, 14, 18, 23, 25 and 16 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 13 sections: 67 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-96.

PART C
PART L
PART R
PART V
PART AB
CHORUS
PART AI
PART AR
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAFAIARCA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perpetual Burn?

110 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 Perpetual 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Perpetual Burn?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 13, 14, 18, 23, 25 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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