Moonchild · Iron Maiden

174 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 6:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-56, 58 and 60, and 10 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
MOONCHILD · BARS 54-55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 34, 35, 36, 37, 45, 49 and 39 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 34-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 45 are fills, 10 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-92.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART I
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 4
8 groovesNIRS2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moonchild?

103 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 Moonchild hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Moonchild?

21 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 34, 35, 36, 37, 45, 49 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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