Trapped Under Ice · Metallica

162 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 10 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
TRAPPED UNDER ICE · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 21, 25, 29, 36, 37 and 22 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 8 sections: 102 keep time, 28 are fills, 21 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-148.

CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCSXPAF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trapped Under Ice?

136 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 Trapped Under Ice hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Trapped Under Ice?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 21, 25, 29, 36, 37 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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