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If I Fell · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove E -- Outro
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0 / 7 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If I Fell on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 2:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-33, 36-48 and 51-61 -- 87% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
If I Fell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 34 and 49.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is If I Fell?

108 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 If I Fell hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in If I Fell?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 34 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED