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The Frog Prince · Keane

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Frog Prince on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Frog Prince -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-61 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-108 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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