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Dancing In The Moonlight · Thin Lizzy

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing In The Moonlight on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, ride through bars 11-58, snare through bars 59-77 and ride through bars 78-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-33, 36-58 and 78-100, and 1 more place -- 74.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Dancing In The Moonlight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 10, 34, 35, 76, 77 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-102 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dancing In The Moonlight?

144 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 Dancing In The Moonlight hard to play on drums?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dancing In The Moonlight?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 10, 34, 35, 76, 77 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED