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Cold · Axewound

Cold · Axewound
EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cold on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-56, snare through bars 57-60, hi-hat through bars 61-83, toms through bars 84-92 and snare through bars 93-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----X--X----X--X|
BD |x-x--x--x-x--x--|
Cold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 4, 12, 18, 20, 28, 36 and 51 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-93 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part AC -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-102 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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