All The Way Down · Dance Gavin Dance

142 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 79-85, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ALL THE WAY DOWN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 10, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 32 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 38 are fills, 13 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

CHORUS
PART E
PART P
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBPEKY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All The Way Down?

130 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 The Way Down hard to play on drums?

60 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 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 All The Way Down?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 10, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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