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Morning Shade · Trueblood

EXERCISE 10 OF 48
Groove E
88 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART O
10 groovesCDION+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Morning Shade on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, snare through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-84 and snare through bars 85-100, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x-----|
Morning Shade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-76 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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