New Moon Rising · Wolfmother

127 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 58-63 and 98-112 -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NEW MOON RISING · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · 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 13 sections: 85 keep time, 17 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-89.

PART B
PART D
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMFDIBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Moon Rising?

140 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 New Moon Rising hard to play on drums?

49 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 New Moon Rising?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 28, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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