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A BLACK MOON (ai) · tigercub

A BLACK MOON (ai) · tigercub
EXERCISE 15 OF 36
Run G1 · Chorus (bars 25-33)
91 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGBLCP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A BLACK MOON (ai) on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-52, snare through bars 53-58, toms through bars 59-60, snare through bars 61-77 and silence through bars 78-84, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 49 and 53-58, and 23 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
A BLACK MOON (ai) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 44, 59, 60, 76 and 3 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 -- G, L, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-33 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-51 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 50-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-105 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A BLACK MOON (ai)?

148 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 A BLACK MOON (ai) hard to play on drums?

38 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 A BLACK MOON (ai)?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 44, 59, 60, 76 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED