Feed My Frankenstein · Alice Cooper

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7-9 and 11-19, and 21 more places -- 66.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
FEED MY FRANKENSTEIN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 10, 32, 41, 61, 69 and 10 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 4 sections: 97 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-31.

OUTRO
4 groovesDXS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feed My Frankenstein?

105 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 Feed My Frankenstein hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Feed My Frankenstein?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 10, 32, 41, 61, 69 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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