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The Story · Brandi Carlile

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS3BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Story on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, toms through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36, silence through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 12-19 and 29-34, and 2 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Story?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Story hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Story?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED