Cold Gin · KISS

130 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 14 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
COLD GIN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 32, 41, 42, 75, 76 and 13 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 19 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-65.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNGHBJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold Gin?

112 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 Gin hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Gin?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 32, 41, 42, 75, 76 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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