Frogs · Failure

344 bars at 280 BPM -- fast, and 4:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 65-80 and 113-127, and 7 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 280 BPM
FROGS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 64, 112, 128, 176, 239 and 240.

LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
LOOP · 280 BPM
BARS 239-240 · LANDS ON BAR 241 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

344 bars across 10 sections: 306 keep time, 6 are fills, 17 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 298-344.

CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frogs?

280 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Frogs hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

344 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Frogs?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 64, 112, 128, 176, 239 and 240.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 344 BARS ANALYSED
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