Fernando · ABBA

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-47 and 49-51, and 9 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
FERNANDO · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 75.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 76 keep time, 2 are fills and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-113.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO
7 groovesJS4S7DF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fernando?

104 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 Fernando hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fernando?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 37 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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