The moon landing was real, I was the cameraman · Status: Disarray

116 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 10 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
THE MOON LANDING WAS REAL, I WAS THE CAMERAMAN · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 23, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31 and 20 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 29-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 8 sections: 75 keep time, 26 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
PART H
PART P
PART G
PART AB
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBHGAFAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The moon landing was real, I was the cameraman?

155 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 landing was real, I was the cameraman hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 landing was real, I was the cameraman?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 23, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31 and 20 more.

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