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Stormy Weather · Kings Of Leon

EXERCISE 16 OF 32
Groove L
83 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART M
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART M
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIS1MP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stormy Weather on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, toms through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and toms through bars 73-80, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-32 and 57-63, and 1 more place -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Stormy Weather -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 48, 80, 82, 84, 86, 92 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-60 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 77-93 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stormy Weather?

124 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 Stormy Weather hard to play on drums?

47 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stormy Weather?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 48, 80, 82, 84, 86, 92 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED