Story To Tell · Death

202 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 6:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-43, 45-51 and 156-162, and 1 more place -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
STORY TO TELL · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 24 and 24 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 17 sections: 129 keep time, 30 are fills and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

PART K
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AJ
PART AP
PART AX
PART BG
PART BJ
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
15 groovesXBJS17APK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Story To Tell?

148 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 Story To Tell hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 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 Story To Tell?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 24 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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