Downfall · Children Of Bodom

225 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 45-51, and 6 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 199 BPM
DOWNFALL · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 28, 52, 60, 68, 80, 85 and 20 more.

LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 26 sections: 99 keep time, 28 are fills, 50 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-51.

CHORUS
PART S8
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AG
PART S24
OUTRO 2
20 groovesDS8AKS24AG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Downfall?

199 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 Downfall hard to play on drums?

58 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Downfall?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 28, 52, 60, 68, 80, 85 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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