Resonant-Strings · Morfonica

194 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 32-34 and 36-38, and 10 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
RESONANT-STRINGS · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16 and 64 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 23 sections: 76 keep time, 70 are fills, 17 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-29.

PART C
PART AG
PART AG
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART BN
12 groovesKAGCBNN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Resonant-Strings?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Resonant-Strings hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 Resonant-Strings?

33 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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