Cold Sweat · Thin Lizzy

132 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-23, 25-31 and 35-49, and 5 more places -- 73.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 167 BPM
COLD SWEAT · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 93.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 8 sections: 117 keep time, 2 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-57.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBAS1S4S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cold Sweat?

167 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 Sweat hard to play on drums?

50 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cold Sweat?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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