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Too Loud/Too Cold · Kurt Travis

Too Loud/Too Cold · Kurt Travis
EXERCISE 31 OF 35
Groove T
151 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBANFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Too Loud/Too Cold on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-92, toms through bars 93-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-167.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-o-x-x-o---|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
Too Loud/Too Cold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 110-122 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED