The Road To Paradise (Fullmoon Flower) · Asbag

235 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 8:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
8:23
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 66-68, and 5 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE ROAD TO PARADISE (FULLMOON FLOWER) · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 17, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 37 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 27 sections: 117 keep time, 43 are fills, 21 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 180-187.

PART C
PART B
PART W
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART AT
21 groovesS16PBIAT+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Road To Paradise (Fullmoon Flower)?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Road To Paradise (Fullmoon Flower) hard to play on drums?

61 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 8:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Road To Paradise (Fullmoon Flower)?

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 17, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
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