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In the Moonlight · DevilDriver

EXERCISE 3 OF 75
Groove O -- Part O
50 / 189 BARS COVERED
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PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBJFAO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In the Moonlight on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33, snare through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
In the Moonlight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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