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The Departure · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 6 OF 23
Fill at bar 6, 14, 18 and 8 more (a small one)
120 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesJCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Departure on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-34, snare through bars 35-50, hi-hat through bars 51-78 and snare through bars 79-152.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 43-49 and 79-85, and 9 more places -- 49.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--g-g--x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
The Departure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Departure?

128 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 The Departure hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 The Departure?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED