Moonlight on the river (fully done) · Mac DeMarco

105 bars, 6:00, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33 and 58-105 -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
MOONLIGHT ON THE RIVER (FULLY DONE) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 4 sections: 102 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-105.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moonlight on the river (fully done)?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Moonlight on the river (fully done) 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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