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Morning Dew · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 18 OF 96
Run D2 · Part D (bars 31-35)
213 / 339 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART AA
PART D
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
16 groovesHDZAABH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 23
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Morning Dew on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
339
LENGTH
10:23
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-15, snare through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30 and ride through bars 31-35, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- H, D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-17 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-93 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-31 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 54-189 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-129 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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