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Mors Naturalis · Phoenix-A

Mors Naturalis · Phoenix-A
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 19 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
6 groovesFLNS3S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mors Naturalis on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-35, silence through bars 36-37, ride through bars 38-47, silence through bars 48-49 and ride through bars 50-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----------------x-x-------------|
SD |x-------X-------x-------X-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Mors Naturalis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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