← SONGS

All The Way Down · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 43 OF 58
Join Part Y to Chorus 2 (bars 77-79)
124 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All The Way Down on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, snare through bars 15-17, toms through bars 18-26, snare through bars 27-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-70 and snare through bars 71-75, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
All The Way Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-119 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-66 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part Y and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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