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FAFO · D.

FAFO · D.
EXERCISE 8 OF 74
Fill at bar 19, 177 and 193 (a small one)
93 / 248 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART T
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART Z
PART T
PART T
PART AJ
11 groovesBTFJQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play FAFO on drums

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.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
89/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-38, ride through bars 39-51, hi-hat through bars 52-70, ride through bars 71-85 and snare through bars 86-91, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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