Moving On · Asking Alexandria

127 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 33 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MOVING ON · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 49, 57 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 12 sections: 43 keep time, 13 are fills, 53 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S8
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEBS8N+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moving On?

135 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 Moving On hard to play on drums?

43 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Moving On?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 49, 57 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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