A storm in my head · Argona

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 26-29, and 6 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
A STORM IN MY HEAD · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15 and 28 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 20-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 38 keep time, 34 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-84.

PART B
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCNJET+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A storm in my head?

98 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 A storm in my head hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A storm in my head?

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 12, 15 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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