So Cold · Balu Brigada

92 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 29-35 and 45-51, and 1 more place -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
SO COLD · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 52, 76, 80, 84 and 92.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCFDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Cold?

111 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 So Cold hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 5 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in So Cold?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 52, 76, 80, 84 and 92.

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