Full moon · Sonata Artica

181 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-37, 59-65 and 67-73, and 6 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FULL MOON · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 20, 26, 42, 58, 66 and 5 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 16 sections: 129 keep time, 11 are fills, 12 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-181.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGJHS2K+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Full moon?

150 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 Full moon hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Full moon?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 20, 26, 42, 58, 66 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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