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THE FALL · HER LAST SIGHT

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove P -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AJ
PART W
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
9 groovesPAJABCE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play THE FALL on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, snare through bars 31-45, hi-hat through bars 46-48 and snare through bars 49-70, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-34, 53-58 and 61-63, and 2 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                                               30
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----x--x--|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------------|
THE FALL -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-21 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-59 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is THE FALL?

132 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 THE FALL hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 THE FALL?

17 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED