Mors Naturalis · Phoenix-A

88 bars, 6:04, at 58 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 33-34 and 63-87 -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 58 BPM
MORS NATURALIS · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 23, 28 and 32.

LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 8 sections: 48 keep time, 4 are fills, 27 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-87.

CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
6 groovesFLNS3S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mors Naturalis?

58 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mors Naturalis hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 6:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 Mors Naturalis?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 23, 28 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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