PERDOLET · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Here Comes The Moon

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 12 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 170 BPM
HERE COMES THE MOON · BAR 5

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 46 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 51 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 128 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 128, 149 and 170 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Here Comes The Moon use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 170 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 28.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 5-7, 9-11, 21-23 and 25-26, and 11 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 15 times over the song.

Is the beat in Here Comes The Moon hard?

46 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED