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Storm · Godspeed You! Black Emperor

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove E -- Part E
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0 / 56 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART S7
16 groovesS5EKS7B+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Storm on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
400
LENGTH
18:54
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-26, snare through bars 27-62, toms through bars 63-116, snare through bars 117-126 and silence through bars 127-207, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x---xggg|
BD |x-------x-------x-------|
Storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 124-260 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part S7 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 232-323 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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