Falan Filan · Redd

121 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 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
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 38-44 and 46-52, and 2 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
FALAN FILAN · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 29, 33, 34 and 16 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-28.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBQTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falan Filan?

155 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 Falan Filan hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Falan Filan?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 29, 33, 34 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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