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Falling Snow · Agalloch

EXERCISE 15 OF 89
Groove G -- Part G
119 / 310 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART C
PART G
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Falling Snow on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
310
LENGTH
9:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-16, ride through bars 17-20, silence through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-32, and 35 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Falling Snow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- M, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-85 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-56 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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