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Falling To Grey · Trivium

EXERCISE 28 OF 67
Hold Groove K for 8 bars -- Part K (bars 82-89)
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0 / 67 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART B
PART AE
CHORUS 4
PART K
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOKBLE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Falling To Grey on drums

273 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
273
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-104, snare through bars 105-120, hi-hat through bars 121-160 and snare through bars 161-176, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-56, 65-79 and 121-135, and 2 more places -- 22.5% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Falling To Grey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 40, 103, 104 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- O, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-64 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-120 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Falling To Grey?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 To Grey hard to play on drums?

60 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

273 bars, about 6:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 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 To Grey?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 40, 103, 104 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 273 BARS ANALYSED