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Moving out · Billy Joel

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-25)
93 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moving out on drums

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

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-83 and kick and crashes through bars 84-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Moving out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-94 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED