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Frozen · Dissection

EXERCISE 16 OF 61
Join Part H to Part J (bars 24-26)
87 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART J
PART A
PART C
PART H
PART J
PART A
PART W
CHORUS
OUTRO
12 groovesAAJWAC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frozen on drums

156 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-18, ride through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-25, ride through bars 26-57 and snare through bars 58-60, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-87, 90-96 and 98-100, and 3 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Frozen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 53, 88, 89 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Frozen?

160 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 Frozen hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Frozen?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 53, 88, 89 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED