Too Loud/Too Cold · Kurt Travis

167 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 5-6 and 8-9, and 27 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
TOO LOUD/TOO COLD · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 59, 62, 65 and 22 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 99-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 8 sections: 129 keep time, 28 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

PART B
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
4 groovesGBANFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Loud/Too Cold?

155 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 Too Loud/Too Cold hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Too Loud/Too Cold?

4 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 59, 62, 65 and 22 more.

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