The Moon · Dark Moor

381 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 9:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
381
LENGTH
9:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-56, 58-63 and 77-78, and 19 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
THE MOON · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 20, 32, 33, 34, 35, 42 and 46 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

381 bars across 34 sections: 253 keep time, 52 are fills, 6 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 251-268.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AF
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
20 groovesMCLAFG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Moon?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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?

62 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

381 bars, about 9:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Moon?

16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 20, 32, 33, 34, 35, 42 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 381 BARS ANALYSED
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