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Storm · Ritchie Blackmore

EXERCISE 8 OF 26
Join Part A to Part B (bars 7-9)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART B
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEBHA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Storm on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, toms through bars 36-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 47-54 and 63-66, and 2 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 31, 46, 58, 82 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-39 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Storm?

120 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 Storm hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Storm?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 31, 46, 58, 82 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED