Frankenstein · Edgar Winter Group

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 8 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FRANKENSTEIN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15 and 33 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 39 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-32.

CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART V
PART AJ
PART S6
CHORUS 2
9 groovesBNS6VJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frankenstein?

100 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 Frankenstein hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Frankenstein?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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