Falling Down · Arkayla

146 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 40 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
FALLING DOWN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 14 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 43-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 91-94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 125-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 9 sections: 115 keep time and 20 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-39.

CHORUS
PART C
PART A
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCAEQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling Down?

172 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Down hard to play on drums?

65 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?

146 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Down?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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