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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

79 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

90

LENGTH

4:30

DIFFICULTY

63/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-90.

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|

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

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Verse and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part E and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Verse 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.