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Kristofer Dahl8th May 2010Greta explanations in this one Gera, thanks!
Bogdan Radovic8th May 2010Very good cover lesson Gera!
Andrew68th May 2010I love this song
Vasilije Vukmirovic8th May 2010Great cover! ![]()
playaxeman8th May 2010Great lesson.
Crazy_Diamond8th May 2010Awesome song .... !!!
Gerardo Siere8th May 2010Thank you guys, I´m glad you like it.
Adrian Figallo9th May 2010wow i LOVE the police, very nice chorus sound!
Ivan Milenkovic9th May 2010Another awesome cover Gerardo, great job with the spoken video and narration too! ![]()
Hisham Al-Sanea9th May 2010nice cover of this song Gera

Hello everyone, today I bring a song by The Police called "Walking on the moon" from the album "Reggatta De Blanc" (1979).
The structure of the song is:
Intro: 8ms (measures)
Verse 1 8ms
Bridge 1 4ms
Verse 2 8ms
Bridge 2 1ms
Chorus 1* 8ms
Bridge 3 4ms (intro material)
Verse 3 8ms
Bridge 4 1ms
Chorus 2* 4ms
Outro 8+8ms
*The chorus is at double tempo and the measure length written above are using the "slow" beat.
There is a 1 measure long bridge that serves to change the beat and the groove: On the verse the guitars plays on the beat and in the chorus the guitar plays on the off-beat ("regular" reggae rhythm comping)
The guitar parts are easy however the rhythm placement is kinda tricky, so in the explanatory vids we will be using the bts panned to the left while the guitar is panned to the right.
I recommend counting using the accents of the guitar part regardless what the other instruments are doing.
The guitar parts are:
Guitar 1: This plays long chords with chorus and delay. (We will need to set the delay tap-tempo to the double at the chorus).
Guitar 2: Regular comping guitar