Pioneer To The Falls · Interpol

125 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-75 and 95-124 -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
PIONEER TO THE FALLS · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 16, 52 and 76.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 12 sections: 100 keep time, 4 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-125.

PART B
PART E
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIBAEH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pioneer To The Falls?

110 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 Pioneer To The Falls hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pioneer To The Falls?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 16, 52 and 76.

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