Colder Than My Heart, If You Can Imagine · A Day To Remember

158 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-24 and 33, and 17 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
COLDER THAN MY HEART, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32, 40, 60 and 18 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 14 sections: 93 keep time, 24 are fills, 10 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-46.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesLCTIS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Colder Than My Heart, If You Can Imagine?

178 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 Colder Than My Heart, If You Can Imagine hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Colder Than My Heart, If You Can Imagine?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 20, 28, 32, 40, 60 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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