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Before the Storm · Cinder

EXERCISE 21 OF 48
Fill at bar 28 and 48 (a small one)
122 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Before the Storm on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
71/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and ride through bars 73-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Before the Storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- H, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-45 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 41-81 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-89 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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