Москва · THE IRON BEES

105 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 49-55 and 73-78 -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
МОСКВА · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 16, 30, 32, 39, 48 and 6 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 14 sections: 65 keep time, 12 are fills, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

PART E
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHNEJB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Москва?

185 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 Москва hard to play on drums?

55 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Москва?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 16, 30, 32, 39, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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