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iron tears, copper snow · ghc-gyz-sa

EXERCISE 23 OF 99
Groove T
76 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART S2
CHORUS
PART Q
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesKQVYBI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play iron tears, copper snow on drums

183 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-44, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 9 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
iron tears, copper snow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18 and 57 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- V, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 30-49 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is iron tears, copper snow?

182 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 iron tears, copper snow hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in iron tears, copper snow?

22 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED