Fall For You · Secondhand Serenade

36 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 1:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11 and 29-35 -- 58.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
FALL FOR YOU · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 14 and 16.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 5 sections: 17 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBDS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall For You?

85 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 For You hard to play on drums?

33 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fall For You?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 14 and 16.

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