Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - Live in LA · John Mayer

155 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 67 BPM, 5:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29-31 and 33-37, and 18 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 67 BPM
SLOW DANCING IN A BURNING ROOM - LIVE IN LA · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 38, 46, 62, 74, 82, 98 and 7 more.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 11 sections: 92 keep time, 13 are fills, 40 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-26.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
PART S
9 groovesDJECB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - Live in LA?

67 BPM, in 2/4, 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 - Live in LA hard to play on drums?

39 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - Live in LA?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 38, 46, 62, 74, 82, 98 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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