The French Open · Foals

62 bars, 3:21, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 38-40, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
THE FRENCH OPEN · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 49, 61 and 62.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 61-62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-44.

PART B
PART D
PART H
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesOHMDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The French Open?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The French Open hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The French Open?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 49, 61 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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