Walls come tumbling down · The Style Council

23 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 0:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
23
LENGTH
0:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 14 and 18, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 6, 13 and 17.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

23 bars across 2 sections: 15 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-12.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walls come tumbling down?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Walls come tumbling down hard to play on drums?

47 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

23 bars, about 0:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Walls come tumbling down?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 6, 13 and 17.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 23 BARS ANALYSED
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