Not Falling · Mudvayne

135 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 15 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NOT FALLING · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 11, 13, 15, 18, 22 and 44 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 74 keep time, 50 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-116.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCTHZAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Falling?

130 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 Not Falling hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Not Falling?

11 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 11, 13, 15, 18, 22 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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