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Cold Rain and Snow · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 6 OF 11
Groove F
88 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cold Rain and Snow on drums

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

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-51, snare through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-59, snare through bars 60-61, hi-hat through bars 62-77 and snare through bars 78-81, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Cold Rain and Snow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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