Frost Delay · Darko US, Thomas Barber

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-27 and 62-68 -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FROST DELAY · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 51, 53, 69, 83 and 84.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 18 sections: 69 keep time, 6 are fills, 8 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-31.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AD
BREAK 4
OUTRO
17 groovesJQS14ADD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frost Delay?

120 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 Frost Delay hard to play on drums?

61 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Frost Delay?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 51, 53, 69, 83 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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