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Crestfallen · Follow My Lead

Crestfallen · Follow My Lead
EXERCISE 5 OF 82
Groove C
90 / 213 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART J
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART X
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AE
CHORUS 3
PART I
18 groovesTEHAEX+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crestfallen on drums

213 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-82, silence through bars 83-84, snare through bars 85-116 and silence through bars 117-118, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 22 and 26, and 31 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Crestfallen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 17, 24, 29, 32, 39 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 12-57 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-71 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crestfallen?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crestfallen hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Crestfallen?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 17, 24, 29, 32, 39 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED