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Falling Down · Arkayla

Falling Down · Arkayla
EXERCISE 9 OF 44
Groove E -- Outro 2
109 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
PART A
PART C
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCAEQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Falling Down on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, snare through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-112, ride through bars 113-119 and hi-hat through bars 120-146.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 40-141 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-95 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-106 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-116 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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