Moonlighting · Maromaro

141 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 19-31 and 33-48, and 1 more place -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 163 BPM
MOONLIGHTING · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 55, 56, 101 and 102.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 101-102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 9 sections: 102 keep time, 6 are fills, 6 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-141.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesCGS6AS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moonlighting?

163 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Moonlighting 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Moonlighting?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 55, 56, 101 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →