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.

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

TEMPO

162 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

236

LENGTH

4:23

DIFFICULTY

51/100

snare through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32, snare through bars 33-52, hi-hat through bars 53-63 and snare through bars 64-69, and 10 more changes after that.

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A, M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
2. Bars 15-21 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S5 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Bars 89-141 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.