Calm Before The Storm · Fall Out Boy

197 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 81-87, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
CALM BEFORE THE STORM · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 44, 72 and 9 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 14 sections: 122 keep time, 15 are fills, 33 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-140.

PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART R
PART X
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGEMRAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Calm Before The Storm?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Calm Before The Storm hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Calm Before The Storm?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 44, 72 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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