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Girl On The Moon · Foreigner

EXERCISE 16 OF 19
Groove J
81 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Girl On The Moon on drums

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.

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
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-38, ride through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-80 and ride through bars 81-88.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Girl On The Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-47 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-51 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED