Rockn' Roll, Morning Light Falls on You · Kessoku Band

164 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 23-24 and 27-33, and 4 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 149 BPM
ROCKN' ROLL, MORNING LIGHT FALLS ON YOU · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 39, 47, 53 and 19 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 14 sections: 115 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-38.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART H
PART Y
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHIYAGM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

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

149 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?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 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 Rockn' Roll, Morning Light Falls on You?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 39, 47, 53 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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