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Can’t Help Falling in Love · Elvis Presley

EXERCISE 19 OF 58
Groove K
88 / 147 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Can’t Help Falling in Love on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24 and ride through bars 25-30, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---|
Can’t Help Falling in Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 20, 28, 36 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 5 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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