Morning Star · Philip Sayce

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-8 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 79 BPM
MORNING STAR · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 36, 40, 48, 50 and 8 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 11 sections: 70 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-12.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesLDAQNV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morning Star?

79 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Star hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Star?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 36, 40, 48, 50 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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