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Freeze Time · 311

EXERCISE 21 OF 28
Join Part H to Part E (bars 55-57)
66 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEHPS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Freeze Time on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-20 and 25-27, and 10 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Freeze Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 32, 35, 56, 59 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-25 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-57 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-71 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Freeze Time?

92 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 Freeze Time hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Freeze Time?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 32, 35, 56, 59 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED