Virginia Moon · Foo Fighters

118 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride and snare.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
13/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-44 and 48-72, and 4 more places -- 85.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
VIRGINIA MOON · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars: 118 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-118.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Virginia Moon?

126 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 Virginia Moon hard to play on drums?

13 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride and snare. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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