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Fallen Crown · At the Ninth Gate

EXERCISE 7 OF 69
Groove O -- Part O
81 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMOUA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fallen Crown on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
84/100

toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-30, toms through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-36 and ride through bars 37-38, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x--------g--------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Fallen Crown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-68 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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