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Not Falling · Mudvayne

EXERCISE 10 OF 60
Groove A -- Part A
44 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Falling on drums

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.

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

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

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-11, ride through bars 12-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-42, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx---xxxxx---xx|
Not Falling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 8-29 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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