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Cold As Perfection · Fleshgod Apocalypse

EXERCISE 5 OF 94
Groove H -- Part H
60 / 260 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 51 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cold As Perfection on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-25, toms through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-81, toms through bars 82-84, hi-hat through bars 85-144 and silence through bars 145-152, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65
    1...............2...............3...............
CC |x---------------x-------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Cold As Perfection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-195 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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