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Moon Baby · Godsmack

EXERCISE 12 OF 46
5-bar fill at bar 13
48 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART O
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBXOAGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moon Baby on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-39 and ride through bars 40-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54, 56-58 and 62, and 7 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x--xx-xx---x-|
Moon Baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 2-52 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Moon Baby?

82 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 Baby hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Moon Baby?

14 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED