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Freefall · Northlane

EXERCISE 6 OF 68
Groove F
30 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freefall on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-39, toms through bars 40-41 and snare through bars 42-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-g-g-g-g-g-g-g--|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
Freefall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM, P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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