Freefall · Northlane

112 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39 and 41-47 -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 117 BPM
FREEFALL · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 47 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-111.

PART G
CHORUS
PART V
PART Y
PART P
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKAGAMGAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freefall?

117 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 Freefall hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Freefall?

16 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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