← SONGS

Where Greater Men Have Fallen · Primordial

EXERCISE 18 OF 76
Groove F
142 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART E
PART M
PART E
PART R
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDERMU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Greater Men Have Fallen on drums

225 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, ride through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-58, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 45-48 and 53-55, and 10 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Where Greater Men Have Fallen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 50, 56, 66 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-33 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-100 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Where Greater Men Have Fallen?

100 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 Where Greater Men Have Fallen hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Where Greater Men Have Fallen?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 50, 56, 66 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED