Cold Edge · 9mm Parabellum Bullet

162 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-15 and 26-31, and 4 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
COLD EDGE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 52 and 28 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 99 keep time, 34 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART X
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAIXDAQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold Edge?

195 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 Edge hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Edge?

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 52 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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