Moonlight on the River · Mac de Marco

120 bars, 7:19, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
7:19
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 14-23 and 26-35, and 3 more places -- 93.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 65 BPM
MOONLIGHT ON THE RIVER · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 25, 36 and 37.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars: 116 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-120.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moonlight on the River?

65 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 hard to play on drums?

37 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?

120 bars, about 7:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 on the River?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 25, 36 and 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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