Freezing Depths · Frostbite

167 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 18 and 20, and 7 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
FREEZING DEPTHS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 14, 32, 36 and 23 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 15 sections: 103 keep time, 29 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-62.

CHORUS
PART N
PART U
PART AF
PART AH
PART AT
PART AX
PART AZ
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGNUAXAH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freezing Depths?

163 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 Freezing Depths hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Freezing Depths?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 14, 32, 36 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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