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

EXERCISE 24 OF 66
Run I1 · Part I (bars 38-46)
93 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colder Than My Heart, If You Can Imagine on drums

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

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-68, toms through bars 69-70 and snare through bars 71-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-------x-|
SD |------x-------x-|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|
Colder Than My Heart, If You Can Imagine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 53-87 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-118 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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