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Ice Queen · Within Temptation

EXERCISE 28 OF 42
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 66-82)
72 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ice Queen on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-51, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxxxx---x-|
Ice Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-43 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-76 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-95 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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