A Night Like This · Caro Emerald

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-20 and 31-42, and 4 more places -- 75.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
A NIGHT LIKE THIS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-90.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesACFS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Night Like This?

120 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 A Night Like This hard to play on drums?

51 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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