Storm The Sorrow · Epica

173 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-62, 64-71 and 98-104, and 3 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
STORM THE SORROW · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 10, 31, 39 and 12 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 14 sections: 107 keep time, 18 are fills, 15 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-89.

PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART V
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNIHQS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Storm The Sorrow?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Sorrow hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 The Sorrow?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 10, 31, 39 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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