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Storm The Sorrow · Epica

EXERCISE 22 OF 60
Join Part I to Part H (bars 30-32)
101 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART H
PART F
PART I
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Storm The Sorrow on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-11, silence through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, toms through bars 28-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-47, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Storm The Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- N -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part S2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-32 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 55-75 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-98 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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