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Frownland · Chat Pile

EXERCISE 30 OF 55
Fill at bar 40 and 62
59 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AB
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGABLNB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frownland on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-31 and toms through bars 32-36, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x--x--x-x--x--|
SD |----f-------f---|
BD |x-x--x--xxx--x--|
Frownland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-28 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-37 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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