Nothing Is Not · Morbid Angel

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO

91 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

117

LENGTH

4:55

DIFFICULTY

70/100

ride through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-43, ride through bars 44-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 71-85, 87-90 and 92-95 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    71                                                               72
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------o---------------o---------------|o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x---------------x---------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x---------------|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------------------------------x-------x-------x-------x-------|

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 19, 21, 22, 26, 27 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part E and Part C -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 24-72 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 93-107 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.