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EXERCISE 6 OF 33
Groove F
31 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long Way To Fall on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-26, hi-hat through bars 27-31, snare through bars 32-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-49, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
SD |---x---x---x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Long Way To Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-48 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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