Cold · At The Gates

143 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 33-34, and 9 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
COLD · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 23 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 29 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-109.

PART F
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIFQLR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold?

167 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 Cold hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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