Rockn' Roll, Morning Light Falls on You · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

162 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39-45 and 47-54, and 8 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 147 BPM
ROCKN' ROLL, MORNING LIGHT FALLS ON YOU · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 38, 55 and 10 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 13 sections: 120 keep time, 16 are fills, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-35.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIFABOT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rockn' Roll, Morning Light Falls on You?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Rockn' Roll, Morning Light Falls on You hard to play on drums?

63 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rockn' Roll, Morning Light Falls on You?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 38, 55 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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