Long Way To Fall · Autopilot Off

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 13, and 9 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
LONG WAY TO FALL · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 35, 37, 39 and 7 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 7 sections: 39 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDMBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Way To Fall?

95 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 Long Way To Fall hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Long Way To Fall?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 35, 37, 39 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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