Morning Bell · Radiohead

116 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 144 BPM, 4:02 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-39, 41-47 and 49-51, and 4 more places -- 89.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 144 BPM
MORNING BELL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 4 sections: 91 keep time and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-60.

CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesAS4EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morning Bell?

144 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Morning Bell hard to play on drums?

45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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