The Killing Moon · Echo And The Bunnymen

178 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-33, 51-59 and 93-178 -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
THE KILLING MOON · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 34, 60, 72 and 76.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 6 sections: 166 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-178.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEIADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Killing Moon?

124 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 The Killing Moon hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 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 The Killing Moon?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 34, 60, 72 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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