Goodnight Moon · Shivaree

114 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 16-22 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
GOODNIGHT MOON · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 23, 31, 48, 56, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 8 sections: 97 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-113.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goodnight Moon?

113 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 Goodnight Moon hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Goodnight Moon?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 23, 31, 48, 56, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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