Rise & Fall · Currents

104 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30 and 57-63 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
RISE & FALL · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 9, 11, 13, 31, 35 and 9 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 13 sections: 61 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-30.

PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQAJSIL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rise & Fall?

124 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 Rise & Fall hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 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 Rise & Fall?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 9, 11, 13, 31, 35 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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