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She Burned Me Down · Type O Negative

EXERCISE 13 OF 101
Fill at bar 24 (a small one)
96 / 241 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART B
PART S2
PART I
PART S
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAISBV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 21
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She Burned Me Down on drums

241 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 9:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
9:11
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-31, toms through bars 32-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-47, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 23 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |----o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
She Burned Me Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- A, I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-97 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is She Burned Me Down?

105 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 She Burned Me Down hard to play on drums?

44 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 9:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in She Burned Me Down?

18 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED