Red Snow · S-h-a-t-t-e-r-f-i-s-t

62 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9 and 19-20 -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
RED SNOW · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 18, 21, 32 and 18 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 6 sections: 29 keep time, 24 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
PART E
PART B
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBAAELFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Snow?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Red Snow hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Red Snow?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 18, 21, 32 and 18 more.

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