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Frizzle Fry · Primus

EXERCISE 10 OF 58
Groove H
100 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S19
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesKEAEAAS19+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frizzle Fry on drums

230 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-63, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 88-91, and 6 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|
Frizzle Fry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 115, 159, 201 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- K, E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-52 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-68 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-83 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Frizzle Fry?

165 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 Frizzle Fry hard to play on drums?

48 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Frizzle Fry?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 115, 159, 201 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED