Lovebearing Storm · Visions Of Atlantis

186 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 45-51, and 1 more place -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
LOVEBEARING STORM · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 22, 26, 32 and 48 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 54 are fills, 41 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesKDBLP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lovebearing Storm?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Lovebearing Storm hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Lovebearing Storm?

28 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 22, 26, 32 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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