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Storm · Luna Sea

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBSKQAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Storm on drums

231 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-68, snare through bars 69-110, silence through bars 111-113, snare through bars 114-132 and ride through bars 133-141, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 16 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 28, 36, 44, 52, 68 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 98-115 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 147-177 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Storm?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Storm hard to play on drums?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 28, 36, 44, 52, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED