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So Cold · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 3 OF 51
Fill at bar 32 and 68 (a small one)
29 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesKGQZA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Cold on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-56, snare through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-27, 40-44 and 46-47 -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--------------o-|
T1 |----fggggXg-fx--|
FT |x-x-------------|
BD |x-x----xx--x---x|
HF |g---x-------x---|
So Cold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 28, 29, 32, 34, 37 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is So Cold?

77 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 So Cold?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 28, 29, 32, 34, 37 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED