Into The Storm · Blind Guardian

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-15, 36-38 and 44-47, and 3 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
INTO THE STORM · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 25, 33 and 25 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 13 sections: 62 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-47.

PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AB
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesJMABRD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into The Storm?

100 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 Into The Storm hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Into The Storm?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 25, 33 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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