Falling Away From Me · Korn

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 29-35 and 45-55, and 1 more place -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
FALLING AWAY FROM ME · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 56, 60, 92 and 2 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-55.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART L
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBGKL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling Away From Me?

104 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 Away From Me hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Falling Away From Me?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 56, 60, 92 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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