Cold As Ice · Foreigner

92 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-78, 81-86 and 89-92 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
COLD AS ICE · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 29, 53, 54 and 11 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 53-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 12 sections: 38 keep time, 17 are fills, 22 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-37.

CHORUS
PART D
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAYNDS9+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold As Ice?

130 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 Cold As Ice hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

92 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Cold As Ice?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 29, 53, 54 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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