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Atlas Falls · Shinedown

EXERCISE 13 OF 51
Join Part D to Part C (bars 14-16)
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0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART C
PART A
PART C
PART D
PART C
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Atlas Falls on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, ride through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50, ride through bars 51-55 and snare through bars 56-62, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--x-----|
BD |x----x--x-x-|
Atlas Falls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- O -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-35 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-49 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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