Cold Rain and Snow · Grateful Dead

102 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 15-51 and 54, and 5 more places -- 82.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 164 BPM
COLD RAIN AND SNOW · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 53, 78, 79, 80 and 81.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 78-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 2 sections: 93 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-51.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold Rain and Snow?

164 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 Rain and Snow hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cold Rain and Snow?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 52, 53, 78, 79, 80 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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