Ice Queen · Within Temptation

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 28, and 11 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
ICE QUEEN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 25, 26, 40, 42 and 10 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-81.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART S6
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGOS1S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ice Queen?

95 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 Queen hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Queen?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 25, 26, 40, 42 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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