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Cold Gin · KISS

EXERCISE 19 OF 54
Join Part J to Chorus (bars 31-33)
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PART B
PART H
PART J
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cold Gin on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 3-32, ride through bars 33-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-64, ride through bars 65-74 and toms through bars 75-77, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|
Cold Gin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- H, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-81 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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