January Freezes Blue · Nate Dawg

127 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-21, 24-25 and 28-29, and 3 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
JANUARY FREEZES BLUE · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 40 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 14 sections: 49 keep time, 46 are fills, 9 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-26.

CHORUS
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AG
PART S10
PART AY
12 groovesELS10XAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is January Freezes Blue?

180 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 January Freezes Blue hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 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 January Freezes Blue?

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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