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"Dead and Cold" · HER LAST SIGHT

EXERCISE 33 OF 103
Groove S
112 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART AO
PART F
PART I
PART Q
PART AB
PART AO
PART O
CHORUS
15 groovesBBQABOU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Dead and Cold" on drums

190 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-17, snare through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-41, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 157-171, 173-179 and 181-187 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    159              160
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxx---xx--xxxx--|xxx---xxxxxxxxxx|
"Dead and Cold" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- BB, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-130 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-141 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-147 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Dead and Cold"?

190 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 "Dead and Cold" hard to play on drums?

56 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in "Dead and Cold"?

24 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED