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A storm in my head · Argona

EXERCISE 9 OF 44
Fill at bar 5 and 9 (a small one)
45 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A storm in my head on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-16, toms through bars 17-19, snare through bars 20-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and snare through bars 38-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xx-xxx-xxx-xxxxx|
A storm in my head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 6-26 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-38 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-65 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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