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Ridin' the Storm Out · REO Speedwagon

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove K -- Chorus
0 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKZPCD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ridin' the Storm Out on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 3-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-35, snare through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-53 and toms through bars 54-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 60-66 and 71, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Ridin' the Storm Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 39, 54, 55, 58 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- K, Z -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-104 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ridin' the Storm Out?

132 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 Ridin' the Storm Out 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ridin' the Storm Out?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 39, 54, 55, 58 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED