Storm · Godspeed You! Black Emperor

400 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 18:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
400
LENGTH
18:54
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-105 and 108-116 -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 68 BPM
STORM · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 26, 106, 107, 272, 273 and 6 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 106-107 · LANDS ON BAR 108 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 272-275 · LANDS ON BAR 276 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 290-291 · LANDS ON BAR 292 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

400 bars across 17 sections: 235 keep time, 12 are fills, 28 are stops and 109 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-105.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART S7
16 groovesS5EKS7B+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Storm?

68 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Storm hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

400 bars, about 18:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Storm?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 26, 106, 107, 272, 273 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 400 BARS ANALYSED
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