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Dave of the Moon · Cherubs

Dave of the Moon · Cherubs
EXERCISE 28 OF 47
Run K1 · Part K (bars 74-84)
116 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dave of the Moon on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-64 and snare through bars 65-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Dave of the Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-102 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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