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Morrigan · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 23 OF 52
Fill at bar 57, 106 and 150 (a small one)
130 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesANJDV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Morrigan on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, ride through bars 42-48, snare through bars 49-65, hi-hat through bars 66-90, ride through bars 91-97 and snare through bars 98-114, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-14 and 22, and 6 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Morrigan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 49, 57, 65, 90, 98 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 -- A, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-53 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 87-120 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Morrigan?

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

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Morrigan?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 49, 57, 65, 90, 98 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED