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Morgondagen · Apati

EXERCISE 16 OF 58
Fill at bar 44, 62 and 98 (a small one)
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COUNT-IN
VERSE
PART E
VERSE 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART O
VERSE 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCENS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Morgondagen on drums

121 bars, 8:02, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

62 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
121
LENGTH
8:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24, 33-35 and 37-39, and 2 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|x------x-xx-----|
Morgondagen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-28 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-45 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-89 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Morgondagen?

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

Is Morgondagen hard to play on drums?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 8:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Morgondagen?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED