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Cursed Moon (new) · Drew

EXERCISE 4 OF 45
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
96 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFQVCL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cursed Moon (new) on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-44, ride through bars 45-52, toms through bars 53-68 and ride through bars 69-75, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 17 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
T1 |--x---------------------|
T2 |----x---x---------------|
FT |----------x---x-x---x-x-|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x-|
Cursed Moon (new) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 38 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-71 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-99 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cursed Moon (new)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 (new) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Cursed Moon (new)?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED