Frozen One · Dance Gavin Dance

146 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
FROZEN ONE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 23, 24, 32, 43 and 10 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 17 sections: 89 keep time, 16 are fills, 18 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-95.

CHORUS
PART F
PART L
PART S6
PART P
PART W
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAFLS6W+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frozen One?

200 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 One hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 One?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 23, 24, 32, 43 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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