Storytelling · Belle & Sebastian

113 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-67, 69-105 and 107, and 2 more places -- 94.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 156 BPM
STORYTELLING · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars: 111 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-67.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Storytelling?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Storytelling hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Storytelling?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

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