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Morning Star · Philip Sayce

Morning Star · Philip Sayce
EXERCISE 11 OF 53
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 12-14)
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0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Morning Star on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-21, ride through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-45, ride through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-70, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Morning Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D, L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-27 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 22-49 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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