High in the Morning · New Junk City

148 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 34, and 20 more places -- 39.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 197 BPM
HIGH IN THE MORNING · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 42, 43, 101, 108 and 109.

LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 197 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 8 sections: 128 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-34.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHANFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is High in the Morning?

197 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 High in the Morning hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 High in the Morning?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 42, 43, 101, 108 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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