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Frozen Gaze · Psycroptic

EXERCISE 2 OF 79
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 79 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AK
PART D
PART AU
PART AK
PART AZ
11 groovesJDAKACAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frozen Gaze on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
92/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-24 and toms through bars 25-29, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-64, 66-68 and 94-96, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Frozen Gaze -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- AK -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-5 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-13 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-114 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Frozen Gaze?

107 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 Frozen Gaze hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Frozen Gaze?

19 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED