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High in the Morning · New Junk City

High in the Morning · New Junk City
EXERCISE 20 OF 32
Groove N -- Part N
133 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High in the Morning on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-43, snare through bars 44-75, hi-hat through bars 76-109, snare through bars 110-141 and hi-hat through bars 142-148.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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