Faded · Alan Walker

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:29 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
8/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24 and 41-56 -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FADED · BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGAS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faded?

90 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 Faded hard to play on drums?

8 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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