Moscow Calling · Gorky Park

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11 and 15, and 39 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
MOSCOW CALLING · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 41, 52, 53, 56, 57 and 8 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 56-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 6 sections: 103 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-108.

PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKDEAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moscow Calling?

100 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 Moscow Calling hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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.

How many fills are in Moscow Calling?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 41, 52, 53, 56, 57 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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