Fade Away · Rebelution

88 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21-25, and 18 more places -- 51.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FADE AWAY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 7 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 9-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 7 sections: 60 keep time, 13 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-71.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGAS1HS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fade Away?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fade Away hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Fade Away?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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