Cursed Moon · indictus

147 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 5:28 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-109 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
CURSED MOON · BAR 89
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 44 and 8 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 13 sections: 96 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-109.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesS13GUWC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cursed Moon?

95 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cursed Moon hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cursed Moon?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 44 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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