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Story To Tell · Death

EXERCISE 16 OF 85
Join Part A to Part D (bars 3-5)
59 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D
PART A
PART D
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
GROOVE · 27
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Story To Tell on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

hi-hat through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-24, toms through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-89, ride through bars 90-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-97, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37                                               38
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----o-o-o-o-----------------o-----o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------------x-----x-----|x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----------|
Story To Tell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- X -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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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