Slow Dancing In A Burning Room · John Mayer

67 bars, 3:51, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 24-34 and 36-40, and 3 more places -- 92.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 69 BPM
SLOW DANCING IN A BURNING ROOM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 2 sections: 65 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-44.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Dancing In A Burning Room?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Slow Dancing In A Burning Room hard to play on drums?

36 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Slow Dancing In A Burning Room?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

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