Ready To Fall · Rise Against

122 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 37-39 and 41-45, and 8 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
READY TO FALL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 26 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 32 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-79.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFJAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ready To Fall?

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 Ready To Fall hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Ready To Fall?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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