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.

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

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

104

LENGTH

2:58

DIFFICULTY

58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46 and ride through bars 47-79, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--------x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxx-x-x-x-|

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

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- I -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 33-98 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 48-98 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.