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EXERCISE 6 OF 53
Join Part C to Part B (bars 20-22)
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PART A
PART C
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the moon on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, silence through bars 34-48, ride through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-65, snare through bars 66-126 and silence through bars 127-157, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----------------------|
SD |g-----------------------|
BD |------------g-----------|
the moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-33 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-66 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED