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Crystal Moonlight Solo · Rhapsody Of Fire

Crystal Moonlight Solo · Rhapsody Of Fire
EXERCISE 38 OF 73
Run AL1 · Part AL (bars 94-106)
144 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AL
CHORUS
PART AL
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AY
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGBEALAYP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Crystal Moonlight Solo on drums

205 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43 and snare through bars 44-58, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 25, and 27 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Crystal Moonlight Solo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 13, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB, O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-152 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part AI -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part AI and Part AL -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part AL and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 112-133 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Crystal Moonlight Solo?

172 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 Crystal Moonlight Solo hard to play on drums?

57 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Crystal Moonlight Solo?

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 13, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED