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Moonchild · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 4 OF 80
Groove I -- Part I
35 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 4
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART I
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 4
8 groovesNIRS2S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moonchild on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53, ride through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-77, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54               55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x--x---------|----------------|
RD |--x-----x-x-xxx-|xx-x--x-xxx-xxx-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--xx--xx--|x--x-x--xx--xx--|
Moonchild -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-57 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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