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Cry For The Moon · Epica

EXERCISE 38 OF 64
Groove AA (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART Z
PART F
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQFZBAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cry For The Moon on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
8:09
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 2-35, hi-hat through bars 36-48, silence through bars 49-54, snare through bars 55-90, hi-hat through bars 91-93 and snare through bars 94-116, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56               57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-xxx-x-xxx-x-xx|x-x-xxx-x-xxx-x-|
Cry For The Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-40 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-48 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-88 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-94 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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