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Frost Troll · Netherwalker

EXERCISE 30 OF 57
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 20-29)
46 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART E
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AR
CHORUS 2
PART AY
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOAYEQAR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frost Troll on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-39 and snare through bars 40-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72-74, 77-78 and 86-92, and 1 more place -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    72
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x-------x-----------------------------------------------|
Frost Troll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 3, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- AY, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-30 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Frost Troll?

110 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 Troll hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Troll?

17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 3, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED