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Storytime · Nightwish

EXERCISE 21 OF 47
Join Chorus 2 to Part S7 (bars 59-61)
127 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S7
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART R
PART Q
VERSE
12 groovesFXHQR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Storytime on drums

212 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 5:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, snare through bars 45-61, silence through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-87, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 43 and 45-59, and 2 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Storytime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 72, 80 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F, X -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-46 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-113 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 121-156 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 151-203 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Storytime?

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 Storytime hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Storytime?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 72, 80 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED