Morning in America · Durand Jones and the Indications

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 30 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 91 BPM
MORNING IN AMERICA · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 4 sections: 82 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-62.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morning in America?

91 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 in America hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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