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

EXERCISE 16 OF 82
Groove M
69 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-53, ride through bars 54-77, hi-hat through bars 78-93, ride through bars 94-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-109, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Moon and Sun Part II: North's Son -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- F, U -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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