Atlas Falls · Shinedown

94 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 3:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 49 and 56-57, and 7 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ATLAS FALLS · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 26 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 22-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 15 sections: 45 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

PART A
PART C
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesODCLQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Atlas Falls?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Atlas Falls hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Atlas Falls?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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