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Luna (MTV Unplugged) · Zoé

EXERCISE 12 OF 17
Run A1 · Part A (bars 29-48)
89 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesEACS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Luna (MTV Unplugged) on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-32, toms through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 25 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
FT |x-----x-x-x-x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Luna (MTV Unplugged) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-73 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Luna (MTV Unplugged)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Luna (MTV Unplugged) hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Luna (MTV Unplugged)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED