Popular Monster · Falling In Reverse

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 19-20 and 41-42, and 3 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
POPULAR MONSTER · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 29 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 6-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 28-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 11 sections: 22 keep time, 35 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-22.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S5
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIS2S10S5A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Popular Monster?

83 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Popular Monster hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Popular Monster?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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