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When the Sky Becomes Morning · Hoppin' Mad

EXERCISE 33 OF 65
Groove S -- Part S
67 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When the Sky Becomes Morning on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, snare through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-100.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------g-----x-|
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------X-----X-|
BD |X-----x-----X-x-|
When the Sky Becomes Morning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 29 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 -- L, AC -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-23 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-62 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-78 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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