In the Moonlight · DevilDriver

189 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 9 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
IN THE MOONLIGHT · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 45, 48, 49 and 41 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 17 sections: 106 keep time, 47 are fills, 2 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBJFAO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In the Moonlight?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is In the Moonlight hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In the Moonlight?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 45, 48, 49 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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