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Crossing The Frame · Coheed And Cambria

EXERCISE 31 OF 49
Fill at bar 93
112 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART J
PART D
PART F
PART I
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesBDFVJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crossing The Frame on drums

131 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-48, hi-hat through bars 49-58, ride through bars 59-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-78, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 50-53 and 55-57 -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Crossing The Frame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 33, 65, 93, 102, 103 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-68 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-83 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-107 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crossing The Frame?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crossing The Frame hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Crossing The Frame?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 33, 65, 93, 102, 103 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED