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Out of the Storm · Roster McCabe

Out of the Storm · Roster McCabe
EXERCISE 27 OF 63
Fill at bar 29 and 53
62 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART U
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Out of the Storm on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-40 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 34-58 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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