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Frozen Twilight · God Is An Astronaut

Frozen Twilight · God Is An Astronaut
EXERCISE 16 OF 18
Run J1 · Part J (bars 58-81)
103 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJGS6S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frozen Twilight on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-35, ride through bars 36-82, silence through bars 83-97 and kick and crashes through bars 98-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-33 and 98-124 -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x-------------x-|
HF |----x-------x---|
Frozen Twilight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part S3 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Frozen Twilight?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Twilight hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Twilight?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED