Early In The Morning · Johnny Winter

22 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 148 BPM, 0:27 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
22
LENGTH
0:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 5 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
EARLY IN THE MORNING · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 10.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

22 bars across 4 sections: 16 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-22.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Early In The Morning?

148 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Early In The Morning hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

22 bars, about 0:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Early In The Morning?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 10.

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