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So Cold · Balu Brigada

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Cold on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-92.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
So Cold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-48 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-81 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED