Fall from Grace · Next Step Up

161 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 41-46, and 21 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
FALL FROM GRACE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 39, 40 and 31 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 37 are fills, 13 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-38.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEIS1AS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall from Grace?

111 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 from Grace hard to play on drums?

42 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 39, 40 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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