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Fall Away · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 10 OF 15
Groove H
70 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fall Away on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 21 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |r-------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Fall Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-30 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-80 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fall Away?

120 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 Fall Away hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED