When the Sky Becomes Morning · Hoppin' Mad

100 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 59-61, and 3 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
WHEN THE SKY BECOMES MORNING · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 29 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time, 35 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-82.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLACFXC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When the Sky Becomes Morning?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is When the Sky Becomes Morning hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 When the Sky Becomes Morning?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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