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Heat Of The Moment · Asia

EXERCISE 11 OF 37
Join Part G to Chorus 2 (bars 29-31)
66 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heat Of The Moment on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-74, ride through bars 75-80 and toms through bars 81-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14                   15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---|x---g---------------|
SD |--------------------|----------------f---|
BD |--------------------|----x-----x-x-------|
Heat Of The Moment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-64 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 50-76 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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