Stone Cold · Jimmy Barnes

188 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 6:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 33-47 and 49-60, and 5 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
STONE COLD · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 28, 48, 75, 76, 112 and 9 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 22 sections: 140 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART H
CHORUS 7
PART B
8 groovesFHBDC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stone Cold?

87 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Stone Cold hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 28, 48, 75, 76, 112 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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