Moonlight Desires · Gowan

123 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-66, 75-78 and 85-123 -- 92% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
MOONLIGHT DESIRES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 7 sections: 111 keep time and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-66.

CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesCES1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moonlight Desires?

118 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 Desires hard to play on drums?

33 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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