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Thin ice · Guilt Trip

EXERCISE 33 OF 43
Groove T -- Outro
53 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
PART F
PART I
PART K
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesRKWFA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thin ice on drums

69 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-34, hi-hat through bars 35-43, snare through bars 44-52, silence through bars 53-57 and snare through bars 58-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--xx--x-x-x---x-|
Thin ice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-17 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-28 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thin ice?

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 Thin ice hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Thin ice?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED