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Morax · Rampager

Morax · Rampager
EXERCISE 17 OF 63
Fill at bar 22 (a small one)
58 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART U
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIMACFU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Morax on drums

110 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
85/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, ride through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-54, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 25-26 and 29, and 6 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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Morax -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Morax?

171 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 Morax hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Morax?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED