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Moonlight Densetsu · Dali

EXERCISE 9 OF 35
Groove E
66 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDLUS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moonlight Densetsu on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 2-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-100.

The beat

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.

    12               13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-----x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |----------------|------xxx-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Moonlight Densetsu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-80 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-100 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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