Fracture · King Crimson

298 bars, 21:31, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
21:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 244-245, 247-248 and 250-251, and 3 more places -- 5.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 63 BPM
FRACTURE · BAR 244
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 37 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

298 bars across 31 sections: 131 keep time, 43 are fills, 5 are stops and 91 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-128.

CHORUS
PART S12
PART AW
PART BM
PART CE
OUTRO
BREAK 6
28 groovesS31CEIS12B+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fracture?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fracture hard to play on drums?

53 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?

298 bars, about 21:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 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 Fracture?

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 298 BARS ANALYSED
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