Frogs · Alice in Chains

193 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 8:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
8:43
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 21 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
FROGS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 59, 61, 65, 67, 99, 101 and 10 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 15 sections: 151 keep time, 16 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-55.

PART A
PART H
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART AF
PART AN
PART AA
8 groovesDHMAFAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frogs?

86 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 Frogs hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 8:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 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 Frogs?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 59, 61, 65, 67, 99, 101 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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