Neon Moon · Brooks & Dunn

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-24, and 9 more places -- 57.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
NEON MOON · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 81, 87 and 94.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 86 keep time, 4 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

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

Questions

What BPM is Neon Moon?

102 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 Neon Moon hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Neon Moon?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 81, 87 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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