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A Moment Like This · Kelly Clarkson

EXERCISE 13 OF 19
Fill at bar 43 (a small one)
43 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
8 groovesDS1AS8S4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Moment Like This on drums

69 bars, 3:47, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-45, silence through bars 46-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-63, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-38, 40 and 42, and 3 more places -- 64% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    49
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-----------x---|
A Moment Like This -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 39, 41, 43 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-42 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-69 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Moment Like This?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is A Moment Like This hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Moment Like This?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 39, 41, 43 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED