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Fallin' Apart at the Seams · Cinderella

EXERCISE 29 OF 29
Play the whole song with the record
98 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 124 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
BREAK
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBHS1DE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fallin' Apart at the Seams on drums

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

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
28/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
Fallin' Apart at the Seams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-98 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-36 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-106 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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