In The Cold Winds Of Nowhere · Dissection

157 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-60, 63-68 and 73-75, and 1 more place -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
IN THE COLD WINDS OF NOWHERE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 28, 32 and 22 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 18 sections: 86 keep time, 28 are fills, 17 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-68.

PART A
PART N
CHORUS
PART S10
PART AD
PART AD
PART AH
PART AL
OUTRO
12 groovesVAADALAH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Cold Winds Of Nowhere?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In The Cold Winds Of Nowhere hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 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 In The Cold Winds Of Nowhere?

23 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 28, 32 and 22 more.

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