Before the Storm · Cinder

143 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29-35, and 3 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BEFORE THE STORM · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 36 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 13 sections: 106 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-111.

PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHLDQA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Before the Storm?

120 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 Before the Storm hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Before the Storm?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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