As The World Falls Down · David Bowie

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 13 more places -- 81% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN · BARS 24-25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 4 sections: 113 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-78.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As The World Falls Down?

96 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 As The World Falls Down hard to play on drums?

55 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?

119 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 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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