Riding The Storm · Running Wild

229 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 69-71 and 77-78, and 19 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RIDING THE STORM · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 58 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 26 sections: 123 keep time, 64 are fills, 10 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-12.

PART C
PART J
PART S
CHORUS 5
PART AC
PART S
8 groovesQSACJC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riding The Storm?

125 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 Riding The Storm hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Riding The Storm?

16 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 58 more.

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