The Frog Prince · Keane

108 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-48, 57-60 and 69-72, and 1 more place -- 73.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THE FROG PRINCE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 65, 66, 67, 107 and 108.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 65-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 107-108 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 8 sections: 92 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-48.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Frog Prince?

115 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 The Frog Prince hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Frog Prince?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 65, 66, 67, 107 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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