Moving out · Billy Joel

113 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 19 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
MOVING OUT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 93.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 5 sections: 93 keep time, 1 is a fill, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moving out?

134 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 out hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Moving out?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 93.

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