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Ready To Fall · Rise Against

EXERCISE 24 OF 42
Fill at bar 46
89 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ready To Fall on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-10, ride through bars 11-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-46 and ride through bars 47-62, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Ready To Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-33 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-80 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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