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

EXERCISE 9 OF 16
Run E1 · Part E (bars 25-36)
74 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCFES6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-68, silence through bars 69-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-82.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-55 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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