Monday Morning · Bad Cash Quartet

81 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 6 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 113 BPM
MONDAY MORNING · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 25, 46 and 5 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 3 sections: 29 keep time, 11 are fills, 36 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-45.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monday Morning?

113 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 Monday Morning hard to play on drums?

35 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Monday Morning?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 25, 46 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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