FREE FALL · coldrain

178 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 25 and 27, and 13 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
FREE FALL · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 34 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 10-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 57-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 16 sections: 43 keep time, 40 are fills, 67 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-73.

PART S2
PART I
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJOACS2S13+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is FREE FALL?

220 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 FREE FALL hard to play on drums?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 FREE FALL?

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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