Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son · Amorphis

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28 and 114-120 -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MOON AND SUN PART II: NORTH'S SON · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 29, 53, 57, 65, 85, 97 and 17 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 20 sections: 95 keep time, 23 are fills, 14 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-135.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
PART R
PART U
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AM
14 groovesFUS1AMR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 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 Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 29, 53, 57, 65, 85, 97 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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