Fall To Pieces · Avril Lavigne

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 16 and 19, and 6 more places -- 75.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FALL TO PIECES · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20 and 7 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 4 sections: 46 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall To Pieces?

90 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 To Pieces hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 To Pieces?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20 and 7 more.

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