Fall To Pieces · Velvet Revolver

72 bars, 4:22, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-54 and 59-71 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 66 BPM
FALL TO PIECES · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 28, 40, 48, 56 and 72.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-71.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART F
PART C
PART D
PART I
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
7 groovesKADCF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall To Pieces?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fall To Pieces hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 To Pieces?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 28, 40, 48, 56 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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