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What It Is To Burn · Finch

EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove C -- Part C
32 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What It Is To Burn on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
What It Is To Burn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-55 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED