Description
Notes From John
BPM = 141. Half time feel. Tasty fills. Fade-out/fade-in optional — or keep the beat going.
For the player
Jimmy Bower on the NOLA cut — sludge crawl at tempo, no warm-up lap. Sit in the pocket under that guitar wall; don’t invent a second backbeat. Intro is half time feel with 4/4 ↔ 3/4 flips — count the flips, don’t iron them into straight fours. Groove enters loud; open hats are marked — bark the opens where John wrote the circle. Verse 1 hits at 0:47 (“Windows are closing…”); Pre-Chorus at 1:15; Chorus at 1:49 (“Smoke…”). Re-Intro at 2:03; Verse 2 at 2:17; Pre-Chorus at 2:44; Chorus back at 3:18. Build Ups at 3:46 / 5:05 / 5:51 and Interludes at 3:59 / 5:18 — ride the dynamics (mf cresc. into f; don’t smash every section the same). Solo at 4:25. Accents and triplet fills stay as written; grace notes into the phrase turns stay quiet. Outro at 6:04: fade-out/fade-in is optional — or keep the beat going like John wrote. Listen first; the pocket at BPM = 141 is the job, not the count-in.
Drum Sheet Music for “Bury Me in Smoke” by Down
