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

EXERCISE 4 OF 45
Groove B -- Part B
96 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - Live in LA on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 2-26, hi-hat through bars 27-90, ride through bars 91-92, hi-hat through bars 93-115, ride through bars 116-127 and snare through bars 128-145, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x---|
BD |x-------|
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - Live in LA -- 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 38, 46, 62, 74, 82, 98 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, E, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 65-92 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 117-154 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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