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Fall To Pieces · Velvet Revolver

Fall To Pieces · Velvet Revolver
EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove K -- Verse 2
0 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fall To Pieces on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-32 and ride through bars 33-40, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|
RD |-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---xx----|
Fall To Pieces -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-52 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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