In Coldest Embrace · Moonlight Sorcery

168 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 57, and 8 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
IN COLDEST EMBRACE · BAR 92
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 17, 22, 29, 44, 45 and 16 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 15 sections: 117 keep time, 22 are fills, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-105.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCFIJG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Coldest Embrace?

175 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 In Coldest Embrace hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 In Coldest Embrace?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 13, 17, 22, 29, 44, 45 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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