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EXERCISE 9 OF 54
Groove E -- Part E
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PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesJMABRD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Into The Storm on drums

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.

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

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

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-25, hi-hat through bars 26-47, snare through bars 48-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------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--|
Into The Storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 6-12 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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