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

EXERCISE 33 OF 52
Fill at bar 110
146 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART D
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIFABOT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rockn' Roll, Morning Light Falls on You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-55, ride through bars 56-59, hi-hat through bars 60-92 and ride through bars 93-110, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Rockn' Roll, Morning Light Falls on You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-13 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-60 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-112 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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