Falling Apart · Love Letter

236 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 162 BPM, 4:23 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 28-34, and 28 more places -- 55.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
FALLING APART · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 89, 202, 203, 204 and 236.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 202-204 · LANDS ON BAR 205 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 236
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 11 sections: 160 keep time, 5 are fills, 45 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-122.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAMKS8G+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling Apart?

162 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Falling Apart hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Falling Apart?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 89, 202, 203, 204 and 236.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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