Out of the Storm · Roster McCabe

101 bars, 5:21, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-8 and 10-11, and 5 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
OUT OF THE STORM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 21, 27 and 20 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time and 26 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-52.

CHORUS
PART H
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBUPHN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Out of the Storm?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Out of the Storm hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Out of the Storm?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 21, 27 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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