Stone Cold · Rainbow

148 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-38, 40-42 and 44-46, and 18 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
STONE COLD · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 67, 71, 75, 88, 120, 128 and 4 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 4 sections: 112 keep time, 10 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-29.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stone Cold?

115 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 Stone Cold hard to play on drums?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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?

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 67, 71, 75, 88, 120, 128 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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