Moon · Borknagar

228 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 26 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MOON · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 16, 32, 35, 36, 37 and 33 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 35-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

228 bars across 18 sections: 138 keep time, 39 are fills, 13 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 180-194.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
CHORUS 4
PART AH
PART AK
PART C
OUTRO
12 groovesHCAKDU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moon?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Moon hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 16, 32, 35, 36, 37 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
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