Flight of the silver storm · Grima

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 6:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 57-64 and 80-82, and 3 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
FLIGHT OF THE SILVER STORM · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 67.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 18 sections: 72 keep time, 6 are fills, 39 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-88.

PART E
CHORUS
PART V
BREAK 4
OUTRO 2
13 groovesQS16VEAA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flight of the silver storm?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Flight of the silver storm hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Flight of the silver storm?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Grima drum parts

EVERY GRIMA CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →