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Falling To Pieces · Faith No More

EXERCISE 18 OF 60
Fill at bar 22 (a small one)
88 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART J
CHORUS 5
PART W
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFJCWAK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Falling To Pieces on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-56, ride through bars 57-60, hi-hat through bars 61-64, ride through bars 65-70, hi-hat through bars 71-96 and ride through bars 97-100, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17 and 21, and 11 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Falling To Pieces -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 8, 22, 26, 28, 30 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-50 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-37 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 4 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Falling To Pieces?

106 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 To Pieces hard to play on drums?

64 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 To Pieces?

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 8, 22, 26, 28, 30 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED