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Frogs · Failure

EXERCISE 5 OF 19
Groove D
287 / 344 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frogs on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80, toms through bars 81-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-144, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---|
Frogs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 62-129 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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