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Drops Of Moon · Antares

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
13 groovesBKGS1S14+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drops Of Moon on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-53, ride through bars 54-87, silence through bars 88-89, hi-hat through bars 90-101 and silence through bars 102-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-34 and 91-94 -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Drops Of Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 57, 61, 67 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-44 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drops Of Moon?

115 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 Drops Of Moon hard to play on drums?

53 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Drops Of Moon?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 37, 38, 57, 61, 67 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED