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Powder Burn · Brutal Truth

EXERCISE 2 OF 58
Groove S -- Outro
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PART A
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesMCTSA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Powder Burn on drums

86 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-26, snare through bars 27-29, hi-hat through bars 30-43 and snare through bars 44-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 62-65 and 68-69, and 1 more place -- 18.5% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Powder Burn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 11, 13, 26, 28, 30 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-35 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Powder Burn?

205 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 Powder Burn hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Powder Burn?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 11, 13, 26, 28, 30 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED