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Friday Morning · Khruangbin

EXERCISE 15 OF 36
Groove F
103 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEJMCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Friday Morning on drums

115 bars, 7:14, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 5 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------r-----------------------r-----------|
BD |------------------x-----x-----------------x-----|
Friday Morning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 33, 41, 73 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E, M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-42 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-74 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Friday Morning?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Friday Morning hard to play on drums?

56 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Friday Morning?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 33, 41, 73 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED