the moon · archive: something

190 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 9 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 166 BPM
THE MOON · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 69, 71, 77, 79, 95, 121 and 4 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 18 sections: 78 keep time, 10 are fills, 32 are stops and 76 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
PART B
PART S5
CHORUS
PART S13
BREAK 4
PART S16
OUTRO
BREAK 5
16 groovesS18OUS13S16+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the moon?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is the moon hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 moon?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 69, 71, 77, 79, 95, 121 and 4 more.

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