Stiff And Cold · Gorguts

184 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 11 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
STIFF AND COLD · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 27, 28 and 35 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 16 sections: 120 keep time, 41 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART F
7 groovesIFRUAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stiff And Cold?

185 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 Stiff And Cold hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Stiff And Cold?

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 27, 28 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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