ZOÉ · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Luna

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-64 -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
17/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 122 BPM
LUNA · BAR 30

It is played on ride and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 14 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 17 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 92 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, ride pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 92, 107 and 122 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Luna use?

A one-bar groove on ride and kick, in 4/4 at 122 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 30-64. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Luna hard?

14 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED