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The Killing Moon · Echo And The Bunnymen

The Killing Moon · Echo And The Bunnymen
EXERCISE 4 OF 30
Fill at bar 8 (a small one)
151 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEIADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Killing Moon on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-60, ride through bars 61-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-178.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |-g-gxg-g-g-gxg-g|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
The Killing Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 37-53 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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