Stone Cold Crazy · Metallica

142 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6 and 23-31, and 3 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
STONE COLD CRAZY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 22, 36, 37, 38, 50 and 15 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 14 sections: 88 keep time, 25 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-126.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART D
PART H
PART E
PART C
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 3
7 groovesAHDEC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stone Cold Crazy?

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

Is Stone Cold Crazy hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 2 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Stone Cold Crazy?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 22, 36, 37, 38, 50 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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