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Mad Man Moon v2 · Genesis

EXERCISE 15 OF 45
Groove J
61 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART C
PART F
PART S7
BREAK 2
PART U
PART S13
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
15 groovesS10AFCUS13+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mad Man Moon v2 on drums

197 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 7:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
7:22
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-30, ride through bars 31-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-37, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 149-155, 164-183 and 191-197 -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    149
    1.......2.......
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Mad Man Moon v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 19, 22, 23, 27, 112 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- AF, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-116 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part S11 and Part U -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mad Man Moon v2?

80 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Mad Man Moon v2 hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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 Mad Man Moon v2?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 19, 22, 23, 27, 112 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED