Ice Melt · Crumb

46 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 11-25 and 27-36, and 1 more place -- 91.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
ICE MELT · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 2 sections: 43 keep time, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-25.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ice Melt?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Ice Melt hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 46 BARS ANALYSED
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