The Storm Still Rages Inside · Orphaned Land

260 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

260

LENGTH

8:40

DIFFICULTY

46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-56 and ride through bars 57-72, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 129-134, 137-142 and 145-150, and 12 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    129              130
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|------x---x-x---|

9 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 40, 72, 88 and 35 more.

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AD, L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 32-41 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. Bars 43-54 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.