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Flight of the silver storm · Grima

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove Q -- Chorus
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PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 4
OUTRO 2
13 groovesQS16VEAA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flight of the silver storm on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-30, silence through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Flight of the silver storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- Q, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S4 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-37 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-53 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-57 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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