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.

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

TEMPO

146 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

126

LENGTH

3:27

DIFFICULTY

61/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44 and ride through bars 45-48, and 8 more changes after that.

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x---x---x---o-|g-x---x---o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x------xxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 13-28 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Bars 37-49 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 45-71 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 79-92 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
8. Through Part A and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.