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Dancing With The Moonlit Knight · Genesis

EXERCISE 5 OF 95
Groove W -- Part W
36 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
BREAK 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART W
PART AP
PART AW
PART BC
OUTRO 2
20 groovesS3JWEAW+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 5
JOIN · 18
LINK · 5
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dancing With The Moonlit Knight on drums

230 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 7:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
7:54
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, silence through bars 13-38, snare through bars 39-60, hi-hat through bars 61-65 and snare through bars 66-70, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-55 and 57 -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |----------------r---------------|
BD |g-------g-----------------------|
HF |----g-------g-------g-------g---|
Dancing With The Moonlit Knight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- E, AW -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-80 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part W -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part W -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part AE -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dancing With The Moonlit Knight?

114 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 Dancing With The Moonlit Knight hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 7:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 With The Moonlit Knight?

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED