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Iron Moon · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 21 OF 59
Fill at bar 30 (a small one)
71 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
PART Q
PART AA
PART AM
PART AS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
7 groovesCAAAMQAS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Iron Moon on drums

131 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, toms through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-41, ride through bars 42-45 and snare through bars 46-49, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-60, 62-64 and 66-67, and 3 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Iron Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15 and 71 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- AM -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 2-42 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-58 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Iron Moon?

162 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 Iron Moon hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Iron Moon?

14 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15 and 71 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED