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Fragen · Beatsteaks

EXERCISE 14 OF 27
Groove J
62 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART M
OUTRO
7 groovesDCMIL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fragen on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-44 and toms through bars 45-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10 and 30-37 -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x-------------x-x-x---------|
BD |--------x---------------x-------|
Fragen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 18, 19, 28, 29, 45 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-74 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 28-55 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fragen?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Fragen hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fragen?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 18, 19, 28, 29, 45 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED