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Moonshine Limbo · Trepalium

Moonshine Limbo · Trepalium
EXERCISE 12 OF 47
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
106 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
PART I
PART I
PART R
PART A
PART AD
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFIAADE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moonshine Limbo on drums

173 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-88, ride through bars 89-104, toms through bars 105-118 and kick and crashes through bars 119-120, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 15, and 20 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |---x--------x-----------|
Moonshine Limbo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 92, 100, 102, 103, 104, 153 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-14 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-18 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-88 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Moonshine Limbo?

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

Is Moonshine Limbo hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Moonshine Limbo?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 92, 100, 102, 103, 104, 153 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED