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Still Frame · Trapt

Still Frame · Trapt
EXERCISE 28 OF 43
2-bar fill at bar 87
103 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART I
BREAK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFITS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Frame on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36 and ride through bars 37-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x-x---x|
Still Frame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-85 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-101 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Frame?

114 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 Still Frame hard to play on drums?

64 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Still Frame?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED