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Cold As Ice · Foreigner

EXERCISE 32 OF 44
Join Chorus 2 to Part S9 (bars 57-59)
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0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S9
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cold As Ice on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-56, toms through bars 57-59, silence through bars 60-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    74
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------x-----------------------|
Cold As Ice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-31 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-59 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-71 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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