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Frame By Frame · King Crimson

EXERCISE 39 OF 43
Groove AB -- Outro 2
145 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frame By Frame on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-46 and silence through bars 47-53, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xgxgxgxxxxxgxxxg|
BD |x---------------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Frame By Frame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-60 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-75 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-157 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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