Morning Dew · Grateful Dead

339 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 10:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
339
LENGTH
10:23
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-25, 36-50 and 66-80, and 10 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MORNING DEW · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 53, 85, 86, 87, 97, 105 and 28 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 85-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 127-129 · LANDS ON BAR 130 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

339 bars across 28 sections: 228 keep time, 34 are fills, 33 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 230-287.

CHORUS 4
PART AA
PART D
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
16 groovesHDZAABH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morning Dew?

130 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 Morning Dew hard to play on drums?

42 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

339 bars, about 10:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Morning Dew?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 53, 85, 86, 87, 97, 105 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 339 BARS ANALYSED
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