Fallin' Apart at the Seams · Cinderella

124 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 45-51 and 75-81, and 1 more place -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
FALLIN' APART AT THE SEAMS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 44, 52 and 8 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBHS1DE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fallin' Apart at the Seams?

115 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 Fallin' Apart at the Seams hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fallin' Apart at the Seams?

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 44, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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