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Frogs · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 5 OF 77
Groove D -- Chorus
64 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frogs on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
8:43
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x-x-o---o---|
SD |------g---g---g-X---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
HF |--------------------------x---x-|
Frogs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-22 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-141 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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