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As The World Falls Down · David Bowie

EXERCISE 7 OF 11
Chorus into Outro with the record (bars 76-83)
116 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As The World Falls Down on drums

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

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-119.

The beat

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.

    24               25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-----x-x---x-x-|x-----x-x----xx-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-x-----x---|
BD |----------------|x-------x-------|
HF |--xxxx---xxx----|--xxxx----xxx---|
As The World Falls Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED