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Frost Delay · Darko US, Thomas Barber

Frost Delay · Darko US, Thomas Barber
EXERCISE 7 OF 53
Groove G
33 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frost Delay on drums

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

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-42, hi-hat through bars 43-49, toms through bars 50-57 and snare through bars 58-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21                               22
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-x---x---------x-x---x---|--x-x---x---x---------x-x---x---|
Frost Delay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- J, Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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