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.

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

TEMPO

93 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

79

LENGTH

3:25

DIFFICULTY

68/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-52, toms through bars 53-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-61, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x-xx-x--x--|

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

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 5-17 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 27-55 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Bars 44-65 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.