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.

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

TEMPO

195 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

162

LENGTH

3:19

DIFFICULTY

64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-88, ride through bars 89-100, toms through bars 101-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-105, and 9 more changes after that.

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---xx|

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

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 16-130 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through Part D and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part M and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
8. Bars 69-84 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
9. and 11 more sittings after that.