Falling For You · Weezer

102 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 16-19 and 24-30, and 8 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FALLING FOR YOU · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44 and 15 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 61-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 25 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-19.

PART S1
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling For You?

110 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 For You hard to play on drums?

57 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 For You?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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