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Walking On The Moon · The Police

EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove F -- Part F
74 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
PART P
PART P
PART U
PART G
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDAMQPN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking On The Moon on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
69/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 14 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    152
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------r--r--------|
BD |------x-----------x-----|
Walking On The Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 3-15 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-36 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Walking On The Moon?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Walking On The Moon hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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