I Fall Apart · Rory Gallagher

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 13-17 and 21-35, and 2 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 79 BPM
I FALL APART · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 88.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 6 sections: 76 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-35.

VERSE
PART E
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHIES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Fall Apart?

79 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 I Fall Apart hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Fall Apart?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 88.

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