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Mighty Storm · Alaric The Goth

Mighty Storm · Alaric The Goth
EXERCISE 10 OF 27
Groove C
43 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
BREAK
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesAKQS2S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mighty Storm on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-21, silence through bars 22-33 and toms through bars 34-35, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-78 -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
HH |o---o-------o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----xx|
Mighty Storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-80 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Mighty Storm?

110 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 Mighty Storm hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 Mighty Storm?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED