Falling Apart · Zebrahead

82 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 19-20 and 22-25, and 5 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
FALLING APART · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 21 and 3 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 14 sections: 56 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-64.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIMPBG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling Apart?

112 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 Falling Apart hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Falling Apart?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 21 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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