Moonlight Densetsu · Dali

100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-6, 8 and 12-18, and 14 more places -- 57.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MOONLIGHT DENSETSU · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 19, 31, 33 and 17 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-77.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDLUS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moonlight Densetsu?

140 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 Moonlight Densetsu hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Moonlight Densetsu?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 19, 31, 33 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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