Fallout Leader · Choke

195 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-38, 41-42 and 50, and 18 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FALLOUT LEADER · BAR 169
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58 and 34 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 60-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 17 sections: 125 keep time, 40 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-47.

PART C
PART G
PART P
CHORUS
PART AF
OUTRO
10 groovesECAFPL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fallout Leader?

150 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 Fallout Leader hard to play on drums?

61 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fallout Leader?

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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