Under A Violet Moon · Blackmore's Night

158 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 43-44 and 47, and 21 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
UNDER A VIOLET MOON · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 157 and 158.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 157-158 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time, 2 are fills and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-151.

PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesKS3S8LA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under A Violet Moon?

170 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 Under A Violet Moon hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, 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 Under A Violet Moon?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 157 and 158.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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