Fallen Crown · At the Ninth Gate

176 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-18 and 20-23, and 13 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FALLEN CROWN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 24, 31, 32 and 33 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 11 sections: 126 keep time and 39 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART U
OUTRO
6 groovesEMOUA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fallen Crown?

120 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Crown hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Fallen Crown?

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 24, 31, 32 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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