Falling On Deaf Ears · HtS

184 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 5:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-36 and 89-91, and 3 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
FALLING ON DEAF EARS · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10 and 43 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 17 sections: 60 keep time, 49 are fills, 6 are stops and 56 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-72.

PART E
PART S2
PART AE
PART I
PART AB
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS17IQS2W+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling On Deaf Ears?

170 BPM, in 6/4, 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 On Deaf Ears hard to play on drums?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 On Deaf Ears?

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 10 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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