Moon On The Water · Beat Crusaders

22 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 0:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
22
LENGTH
0:36
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
MOON ON THE WATER · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 20 and 21.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

22 bars across 4 sections: 10 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-11.

COUNT-IN
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFBS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moon On The Water?

146 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 On The Water hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

22 bars, about 0:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 On The Water?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 20 and 21.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 22 BARS ANALYSED
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