Falling Upon Me · Nine Circles

104 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 24 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FALLING UPON ME · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 20 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 66 keep time, 26 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesINRYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling Upon Me?

140 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 Upon Me hard to play on drums?

58 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?

104 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Upon Me?

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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