Falling Inside The Black · Skillet

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 44-50 and 55-57, and 2 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
FALLING INSIDE THE BLACK · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 19 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 11 sections: 38 keep time, 25 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-28.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKEHS2X+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling Inside The Black?

93 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 Inside The Black hard to play on drums?

68 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?

79 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Inside The Black?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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