Frustration · Scaperoot

188 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-35, 49-50 and 53-54, and 18 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 173 BPM
FRUSTRATION · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 20 and 10 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 16 sections: 139 keep time, 16 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-113.

PART A
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART O
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGIAYF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frustration?

173 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Frustration hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Frustration?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 20 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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