Fake Tales Of San Francisco · Arctic Monkeys

94 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-76 and 78-84 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FAKE TALES OF SAN FRANCISCO · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 29, 37 and 13 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 8 sections: 61 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART X
7 groovesFBXQC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fake Tales Of San Francisco?

130 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 Fake Tales Of San Francisco hard to play on drums?

61 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Fake Tales Of San Francisco?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 29, 37 and 13 more.

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