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Lily and the Moon · Thornhill

EXERCISE 12 OF 56
Groove F
39 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lily and the Moon on drums

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

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-31, silence through bars 32-38, snare through bars 39-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70 and silence through bars 71-72, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Lily and the Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M, AB -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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