San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) · Scott McKenzie

82 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-13, 15-18 and 20-24, and 3 more places -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
SAN FRANCISCO (BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 73 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCFES6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)?

113 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 San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) hard to play on drums?

49 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?

82 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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