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Fun, Fun, Fun · The Beach Boys

EXERCISE 16 OF 16
Play the whole song with the record
84 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT · IN THE COUNT-IN, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fun, Fun, Fun on drums

85 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-28 and 30-36, and 7 more places -- 85.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Fun, Fun, Fun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 13, 29, 37, 45, 61 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Fun, Fun, Fun?

157 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 Fun, Fun, Fun hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 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 Fun, Fun, Fun?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 13, 29, 37, 45, 61 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED