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Feed My Frankenstein · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove D -- Outro
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0 / 34 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
4 groovesDXS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feed My Frankenstein on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 3-117.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-o-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
Feed My Frankenstein -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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