Ordinary Story · In Flames

142 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-15 and 47-63, and 1 more place -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ORDINARY STORY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 16, 32, 44, 64, 77 and 2 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 9 sections: 98 keep time, 8 are fills, 18 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-63.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBMS8JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ordinary Story?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ordinary Story hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Ordinary Story?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 16, 32, 44, 64, 77 and 2 more.

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