Falling Snow · Agalloch

310 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 9:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
9:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 37-39 and 45-47, and 15 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
FALLING SNOW · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 78, 98 and 31 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

310 bars across 31 sections: 208 keep time, 37 are fills, 19 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 279-303.

PART C
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART C
PART M
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesPJCMAT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling Snow?

131 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 Snow hard to play on drums?

63 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

310 bars, about 9:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 19 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 Snow?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 78, 98 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 310 BARS ANALYSED
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