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Winter Morning Tower · Grima

EXERCISE 3 OF 101
Groove D -- Part D
67 / 313 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART S8
PART U
PART D
PART AI
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBS8DAIU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Winter Morning Tower on drums

313 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 9:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
313
LENGTH
9:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, snare through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-84, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 41 and 43-45, and 25 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Winter Morning Tower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 24, 40, 42, 48, 50, 54 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-243 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Winter Morning Tower?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Winter Morning Tower hard to play on drums?

63 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

313 bars, about 9:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Winter Morning Tower?

25 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 24, 40, 42, 48, 50, 54 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 313 BARS ANALYSED