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EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 11 PASSED · 94 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cold on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-12, 14-15 and 18-32, and 6 more places -- 87.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |--------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

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 16, 17, 45, 48, 49 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cold?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cold?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 16, 17, 45, 48, 49 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED