Luna · Smashing Pumpkins

45 bars, 2:48, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 32-34, and 2 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 63 BPM
LUNA · BAR 33
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 22, 23, 35, 39, 43 and 1 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 63 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 3 sections: 31 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-34.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Luna?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Luna hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Luna?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 22, 23, 35, 39, 43 and 1 more.

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