Fallen · Volbeat

181 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35, and 9 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FALLEN · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 58, 62 and 16 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 14 sections: 110 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-57.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART H
PART J
PART K
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCJHKS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fallen?

150 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?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 58, 62 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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