Cold As Perfection · Fleshgod Apocalypse

260 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 6:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-42, 45-46 and 65-70, and 13 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
COLD AS PERFECTION · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 31, 32, 48 and 50 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

260 bars across 19 sections: 144 keep time, 56 are fills, 29 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-111.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
14 groovesJHAALAB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold As Perfection?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Perfection hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 22 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 Perfection?

21 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 31, 32, 48 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED
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