Return to the Moon · EL VY

129 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 38-40 and 42-44, and 2 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
RETURN TO THE MOON · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 101 and 1 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 61-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 14 sections: 98 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
VERSE
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBDFUAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Return to the Moon?

126 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 Return to the Moon hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Return to the Moon?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 101 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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