Morning Shade · Trueblood

143 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 44 and 46, and 17 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
MORNING SHADE · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 40, 42, 50, 84, 92 and 8 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 16 sections: 105 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART O
10 groovesCDION+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morning Shade?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Morning Shade hard to play on drums?

60 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Morning Shade?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 40, 42, 50, 84, 92 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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