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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

83 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

73

LENGTH

3:30

DIFFICULTY

80/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-13, snare through bars 14-22, silence through bars 23-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35 and snare through bars 36-61, and 3 more changes after that.

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.

    15                               16
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------x-----x---x---|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-x-------x---|x-----x-----x-------x-----x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. Bars 6-23 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 28-41 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 41-57 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.