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Resonant-Strings · Morfonica

Resonant-Strings · Morfonica
EXERCISE 9 OF 115
4-bar fill at bar 5
61 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 115 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 33
LAND · 33
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Resonant-Strings on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-20 and kick and crashes through bars 21-23, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Resonant-Strings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 2-18 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-41 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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