Cold · Axewound

140 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-17 and 19, and 10 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
COLD · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 4, 12, 18, 20, 28, 36 and 51 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 11 sections: 67 keep time, 57 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART AC
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGACKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

17 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 4, 12, 18, 20, 28, 36 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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