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Lunarhaze · What Lies Below

Lunarhaze · What Lies Below
EXERCISE 3 OF 62
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
19 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
PART H
PART N
PART U
PART B
PART H
PART N
PART U
PART AJ
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBANHS16U+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lunarhaze on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, snare through bars 31-45, hi-hat through bars 46-49 and snare through bars 50-53, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 64, and 2 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34                               35
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-----------x-x-|
BD |x-----------x-------------------|x-----x-----x-------x-----x-----|
Lunarhaze -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 12, 14, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- U, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lunarhaze?

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 Lunarhaze hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Lunarhaze?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 12, 14, 25, 27, 28, 29 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED