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moss covered bones on the altar of the moon · Blackbraid

EXERCISE 23 OF 131
Groove H
314 / 618 BARS COVERED
0 / 131 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART U
PART U
PART AK
17 groovesGUAKLAI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 14
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play moss covered bones on the altar of the moon on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
618
LENGTH
12:12
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-44, hi-hat through bars 45-73, snare through bars 74-88, hi-hat through bars 89-153 and snare through bars 154-168, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
moss covered bones on the altar of the moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 99 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 -- G, U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-46 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-253 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 249-280 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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