death metal · ICE WARM

145 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 24 and 28, and 2 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DEATH METAL · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 34, 36, 46, 48 and 116.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 10 sections: 112 keep time, 5 are fills, 18 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-31.

PART A
PART B
PART E
PART D
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIBMEA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is death metal?

180 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 death metal hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 death metal?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 34, 36, 46, 48 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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