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The Morrisist · Sleep

EXERCISE 33 OF 40
Fill at bar 137 (a small one)
101 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5
CHORUS
PART A
PART S3
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
10 groovesCAJFS3+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Morrisist on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
41/100

ride through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-24, ride through bars 25-33, silence through bars 34-40, ride through bars 41-42 and snare through bars 43-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-23, 31 and 43-45, and 5 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x---x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----x-----------|
The Morrisist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 32, 46 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part S3 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-94 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-116 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Break 3 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Morrisist?

145 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 The Morrisist hard to play on drums?

41 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 The Morrisist?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 32, 46 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED