All Falls Down · Kanye West

40 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 1:45 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-40 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 91 BPM
ALL FALLS DOWN · BARS 9-10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 2 sections: 34 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-40.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Falls Down?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 All Falls Down hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

40 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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