Heat Of The Moment · Asia

120 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12, 14-21 and 31-38, and 1 more place -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
HEAT OF THE MOMENT · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 22, 39, 63, 74, 81, 82 and 3 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 9 are fills, 7 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-21.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesCVNGJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heat Of The Moment?

132 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 Heat Of The Moment hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Heat Of The Moment?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 22, 39, 63, 74, 81, 82 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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