Frownland · Chat Pile

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 15 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
FROWNLAND · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 20, 22 and 24 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 13 sections: 35 keep time and 30 are fills.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AB
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGABLNB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frownland?

83 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Frownland hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Frownland?

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 20, 22 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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