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Fallen · Volbeat

EXERCISE 14 OF 50
Join Break to Chorus (bars 25-27)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fallen on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-58, ride through bars 59-74, hi-hat through bars 75-98 and ride through bars 99-112, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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 22 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 58, 62 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-149 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-115 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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