Cry For The Moon · Epica

184 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 8:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
8:09
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 56-79, 137-151 and 153-160 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CRY FOR THE MOON · BARS 56-57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 26, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 32 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 35-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 16 sections: 128 keep time, 38 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-79.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQFZBAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cry For The Moon?

90 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 Cry For The Moon hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 8:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Cry For The Moon?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 26, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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