Lily and the Moon · Thornhill

109 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LILY AND THE MOON · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 23 are fills, 9 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S3
PART M
VERSE
PART U
PART X
BREAK 2
10 groovesCMPXA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lily and the Moon?

135 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 Lily and the Moon hard to play on drums?

56 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lily and the Moon?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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