Fall Down · Toad The Wet Sprocket

127 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 13-19 and 21, and 9 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
FALL DOWN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 24, 56, 64, 68, 72 and 10 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 8 sections: 97 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-55.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCOIV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall Down?

156 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 Down 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Down?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 24, 56, 64, 68, 72 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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