This fffire - New Version · Franz Ferdinand

126 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-35, 49 and 57-66, and 3 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 146 BPM
THIS FFFIRE - NEW VERSION · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 24, 50, 51, 52, 56 and 5 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 50-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 14 sections: 87 keep time, 11 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART J
CHORUS 3
9 groovesFAJMB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This fffire - New Version?

146 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 This fffire - New Version hard to play on drums?

61 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in This fffire - New Version?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 24, 50, 51, 52, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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