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FREE FALL · coldrain

EXERCISE 4 OF 64
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
33 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play FREE FALL on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-65, hi-hat through bars 66-73, snare through bars 74-98, silence through bars 99-120 and snare through bars 121-124, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--x-----x-------|
BD |----x-x---x-----|
FREE FALL -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- J, I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-35 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-48 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-98 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-122 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AC -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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