FAFO · D.

247 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 5:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 20-34 and 52-66 -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
FAFO · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 107, 114, 115, 123, 138 and 18 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 114-115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 17 sections: 182 keep time, 25 are fills, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-106.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART Z
PART T
PART AJ
11 groovesBTFJQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is FAFO?

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

Is FAFO hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 FAFO?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 107, 114, 115, 123, 138 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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