Cold · Chris Stapleton

72 bars, 4:56, at 58 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-33, 35-41 and 43-45, and 4 more places -- 86.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 58 BPM
COLD · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 34, 42, 46, 54, 62, 66 and 1 more.

LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 2 sections: 59 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-33.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold?

58 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Cold hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 34, 42, 46, 54, 62, 66 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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