Freezing Moon (D Standard) · Mayhem

177 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
6:54
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 69-71 and 73-75, and 4 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
FREEZING MOON (D STANDARD) · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 36, 40 and 38 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 21 sections: 99 keep time, 44 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART C
PART F
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART AR
PART AM
PART AO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesWAMAOFC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Freezing Moon (D Standard)?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Freezing Moon (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 6:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 24 sittings, about 28 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 Freezing Moon (D Standard)?

29 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 36, 40 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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