After Midnight · Chappell Roan

92 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-19 and 22-32, and 9 more places -- 63% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
AFTER MIDNIGHT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-57.

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

Questions

What BPM is After Midnight?

110 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 After Midnight hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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