Can’t Help Falling in Love · Elvis Presley

147 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 19 and 21-23, and 8 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 20, 28, 36 and 26 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 16 sections: 73 keep time, 32 are fills, 11 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-104.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART I
CHORUS 5
PART I
CHORUS 6
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCIS15S14E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Can’t Help Falling in Love?

112 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Can’t Help Falling in Love hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Can’t Help Falling in Love?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 20, 28, 36 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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