Earth Moon Transit · Duster

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-35, 61-77 and 79-95, and 2 more places -- 74.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
EARTH MOON TRANSIT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 78, 96, 104 and 105.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 104-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 4 sections: 104 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Earth Moon Transit?

100 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 Earth Moon Transit hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Earth Moon Transit?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 78, 96, 104 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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