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the killing moon · echoes and the bunnymen

the killing moon · echoes and the bunnymen
EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 16-18)
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1DHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the killing moon on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, snare through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-38, snare through bars 39-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 24-38 and 42-44, and 6 more places -- 81.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
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

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-45 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 67-146 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is the killing moon?

120 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?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 the killing moon?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

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