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Morning in America · Durand Jones and the Indications

Morning in America · Durand Jones and the Indications
EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove B
55 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Morning in America on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-87.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|
Morning in America -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED