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New Moon Rising · Wolfmother

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove F -- Part F
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Moon Rising on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, toms through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-57, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
New Moon Rising -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-31 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-38 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-118 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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