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Fall From Grace · Morbid Angel

EXERCISE 9 OF 97
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
82 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AL
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART A
OUTRO
14 groovesVPFALA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fall From Grace on drums

212 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 10:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
10:48
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57 and ride through bars 58-73, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36-38 and 40-42, and 10 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Fall From Grace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 15-22 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fall From Grace?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 From Grace hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 10:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 From Grace?

24 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED