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Falling Apart · Zebrahead

Falling Apart · Zebrahead
EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIMPBG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Falling Apart on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and snare through bars 42-53, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x----x--x--x|
BD |x--x----x--x--x-|
Falling Apart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-33 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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