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Cold Black Days · Atrocity

EXERCISE 17 OF 33
5-bar fill at bar 56
82 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFDNJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cold Black Days on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46 and snare through bars 47-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-11, 25-33 and 47-55, and 2 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|
Cold Black Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 24, 46, 56, 57 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-62 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 65-71 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cold Black Days?

100 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Black Days hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Black Days?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 24, 46, 56, 57 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED