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

EXERCISE 14 OF 60
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 12-14)
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0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-13, hi-hat through bars 14-60, silence through bars 61-64, hi-hat through bars 65-93 and ride through bars 94-111, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-57 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-65 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-89 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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