Frame By Frame · King Crimson

182 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-44, 94-112 and 162-167 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
FRAME BY FRAME · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 18, 84, 85 and 9 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 14 sections: 125 keep time, 15 are fills, 9 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-152.

PART B
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKHBABM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frame By Frame?

157 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 Frame By Frame hard to play on drums?

50 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Frame By Frame?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 18, 84, 85 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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