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the moon [v1] · process: something

EXERCISE 15 OF 59
Fill at bar 40 (a small one)
74 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE BREAK 2
PART S4
BREAK 2
PART I
PART O
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
BREAK 7
20 groovesS21SXACS4+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the moon [v1] on drums

190 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-33, silence through bars 34-48, ride through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-65, snare through bars 66-131 and silence through bars 132-138, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 16 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |----------------x---------------|
the moon [v1] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 40, 69, 71, 79 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-33 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-55 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is the moon [v1]?

176 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 [v1] hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 [v1]?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 40, 69, 71, 79 and 3 more.

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