Stone Cold Killer · Onyx Colony

36 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 0:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
0:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
STONE COLD KILLER · BAR 21
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 5 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 2 sections: 22 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesILFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stone Cold Killer?

160 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 Killer hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 0:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Stone Cold Killer?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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