Ice Nine Kill · Work of Art

198 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37 and 39, and 21 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ICE NINE KILL · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 51 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 23 sections: 64 keep time, 57 are fills, 31 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-104.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART S21
OUTRO
19 groovesMDAS21S1+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ice Nine Kill?

200 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 Ice Nine Kill hard to play on drums?

43 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ice Nine Kill?

21 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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