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Riding The Storm · Running Wild

Riding The Storm · Running Wild
EXERCISE 4 OF 63
Groove S -- Part S
54 / 229 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART J
PART S
PART S
PART S
PART S
CHORUS 5
PART S
PART S
PART AC
PART S
PART S
PART S
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQSACJC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Riding The Storm on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, toms through bars 14-20, ride through bars 21-45, toms through bars 46-53 and silence through bars 54-60, and 47 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 58 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 3-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-72 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED