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Pale Moonlight · Dayseeker

EXERCISE 24 OF 43
Fill at bar 43 (a small one)
55 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART T
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART M
PART D
PART T
PART V
PART D
OUTRO
9 groovesADTVF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pale Moonlight on drums

68 bars, 3:36, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21 and ride through bars 22-25, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 10-16 and 26-27, and 1 more place -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |----------------x---------------|
Pale Moonlight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 35, 43, 47, 49, 51 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-42 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pale Moonlight?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pale Moonlight hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pale Moonlight?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 35, 43, 47, 49, 51 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED