Dave of the Moon · Cherubs

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 13-19 and 22-29, and 6 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
DAVE OF THE MOON · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 20, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 17 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 8 sections: 97 keep time, 23 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART K
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesACOKS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dave of the Moon?

108 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 Dave of the Moon hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dave of the Moon?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 20, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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