'Morris Minor' · Bernie Marsden

87 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 4:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-11 and 13-16, and 5 more places -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
'MORRIS MINOR' · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 46 and 52.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 5 sections: 46 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-35.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS5HS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 'Morris Minor'?

128 BPM, in 6/4, 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 'Morris Minor' hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 'Morris Minor'?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 46 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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