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Watch Me Burn · Crystal Lake

EXERCISE 16 OF 65
Groove N -- Part N
50 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART S2
PART H
PART N
PART P
CHORUS
PART S8
CHORUS 3
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesXS8S12PZ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watch Me Burn on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, toms through bars 31-34 and snare through bars 35-49, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 43-45 and 69-71, and 3 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-------x---|
Watch Me Burn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 14, 18, 22, 26, 29 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- X, Z -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-48 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 17-23 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-35 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Watch Me Burn?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Watch Me Burn hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Watch Me Burn?

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 14, 18, 22, 26, 29 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED