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'Morris Minor' · Bernie Marsden

'Morris Minor' · Bernie Marsden
EXERCISE 19 OF 19
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 19 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS5HS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 'Morris Minor' on drums

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.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-49, ride through bars 50-52, hi-hat through bars 53-59 and silence through bars 60-87.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---|
'Morris Minor' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 35-47 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-60 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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