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Fallen Brother · Kreator

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFBLPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fallen Brother on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-28, toms through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-68 and toms through bars 69-70, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 39-45 and 71-77, and 5 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Fallen Brother -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 14, 29, 30, 38 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fallen Brother?

145 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 Fallen Brother hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Fallen Brother?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 14, 29, 30, 38 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED