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Fallen · Lola Amour

Fallen · Lola Amour
EXERCISE 29 OF 45
Join Part R to Part D (bars 52-54)
65 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART R
PART D
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBRDGE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fallen on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-58, silence through bars 59-65, hi-hat through bars 66-76 and snare through bars 77-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 26-28 and 30-31 -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 41, 48, 49 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-74 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fallen?

101 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 hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fallen?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 41, 48, 49 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED