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Fall Down · Toad The Wet Sprocket

Fall Down · Toad The Wet Sprocket
EXERCISE 17 OF 47
Groove J
98 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCOIV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fall Down on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, ride through bars 57-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-108, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-101 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-57 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-112 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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