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Full moon · Sonata Artica

Full moon · Sonata Artica
EXERCISE 24 OF 52
Join Part K to Chorus 2 (bars 57-59)
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0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGJHS2K+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Full moon on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-26, ride through bars 27-37, hi-hat through bars 38-58, ride through bars 59-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-117, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--xxx-xx--xx|
Full 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 14, 20, 26, 42, 58, 66 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-89 -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-48 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-93 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-109 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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