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Stormy Monday Live at the Filmore · Allman Brothers

EXERCISE 24 OF 28
3-bar fill at bar 111
108 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesFS5DPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stormy Monday Live at the Filmore on drums

163 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 10:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
10:23
DIFFICULTY
28/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, ride through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, ride through bars 15-114 and silence through bars 115-163.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-18, 20-21 and 23-25, and 17 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Stormy Monday Live at the Filmore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 76 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Stormy Monday Live at the Filmore?

90 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Stormy Monday Live at the Filmore hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 10:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stormy Monday Live at the Filmore?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 76 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED