Morose · Algorhythm

100 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 2:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesElectronic120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 29-30 and 32-33, and 11 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MOROSE · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 40, 43, 57, 66 and 6 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 7 sections: 66 keep time, 12 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEMIS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morose?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Morose hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Morose?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 40, 43, 57, 66 and 6 more.

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