Neon Moon · Cigarettes After Sex

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 28-30 and 34-51, and 2 more places -- 77.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
NEON MOON · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 3 sections: 78 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-63.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Neon Moon?

90 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?

40 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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