Fairytale Gone Bad · Sunrise Avenue

107 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-42 and 100-107 -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FAIRYTALE GONE BAD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 43, 67, 75, 83, 90, 91 and 1 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 4 sections: 97 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-42.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fairytale Gone Bad?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fairytale Gone Bad hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fairytale Gone Bad?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 43, 67, 75, 83, 90, 91 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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