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Fall Back Down · Rancid

EXERCISE 5 OF 12
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 29-31)
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0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fall Back Down on drums

181 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-132, kick and crashes through bars 133-140 and hi-hat through bars 141-181.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-82, 97-122 and 125-130, and 1 more place -- 75.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 123, 124, 131 and 132.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-181 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fall Back Down?

208 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 Fall Back Down hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fall Back Down?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 123, 124, 131 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED