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Falan Filan · Redd

EXERCISE 30 OF 43
Groove T -- Outro
109 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Falan Filan on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, toms through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-37 and ride through bars 38-53, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--g----x---|----x--g----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
Falan Filan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-90 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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