moss covered bones on the altar of the moon · Blackbraid

618 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 12:12 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
618
LENGTH
12:12
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49 and 51, and 73 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
MOSS COVERED BONES ON THE ALTAR OF THE MOON · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 40, 42, 44, 52, 60, 68 and 70 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

618 bars across 29 sections: 366 keep time, 76 are fills, 135 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART U
PART AK
17 groovesGUAKLAI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is moss covered bones on the altar of the moon?

168 BPM, in 3/4, 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 moss covered bones on the altar of the moon hard to play on drums?

58 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?

618 bars, about 12:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 22 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 moss covered bones on the altar of the moon?

31 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 40, 42, 44, 52, 60, 68 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 618 BARS ANALYSED
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