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Trapped Under Ice · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trapped Under Ice on drums

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.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, toms through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-70, toms through bars 71-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-111, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8                9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Trapped Under Ice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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