What It Is To Burn · Finch

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-23 and 25-27, and 6 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
WHAT IT IS TO BURN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 36, 40, 58 and 2 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-70.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJCES8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What It Is To Burn?

76 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 What It Is To Burn hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 What It Is To Burn?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 36, 40, 58 and 2 more.

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