Fall into · Ally Nicholas

78 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FALL INTO · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 18, 32, 48, 56, 57 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 56-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 11 sections: 29 keep time, 12 are fills, 22 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCBHDS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall into?

140 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 into hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 into?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 18, 32, 48, 56, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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