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Ice Nine Kill · Work of Art

Ice Nine Kill · Work of Art
EXERCISE 42 OF 76
Fill at bar 68 (a small one)
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0 / 76 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART S21
OUTRO
19 groovesMDAS21S1+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ice Nine Kill on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34 and snare through bars 35-54, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x---x-|
Ice Nine Kill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-35 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-91 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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