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Morose · Algorhythm

EXERCISE 2 OF 29
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Morose on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57, ride through bars 58-75, hi-hat through bars 76-83 and ride through bars 84-100.

The beat

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.

    26           27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
RD |----x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------|x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Morose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED