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Downfall · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 11 OF 66
Run S51 · Part S5 (bars 15-20)
96 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S5
PART S5
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Downfall on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-69, silence through bars 70-76 and kick and crashes through bars 77-80, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S5 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 21-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S8 and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-127 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 126-154 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part AC -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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