Fags And Failure · Graham Coxon

99 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-27 and 29-35, and 8 more places -- 86.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
FAGS AND FAILURE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 2.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars: 96 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-98.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fags And Failure?

200 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 Fags And Failure hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Fags And Failure?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 2.

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