Girl On The Moon · Foreigner

88 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-37, 47-49 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 65.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
GIRL ON THE MOON · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 8, 46, 50, 54, 62 and 1 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 72 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-37.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Girl On The Moon?

112 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 Girl On The 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Girl On The Moon?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 8, 46, 50, 54, 62 and 1 more.

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