After Midnight · Eric Clapton

57 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-31 and 46-57 -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AFTER MIDNIGHT · BAR 12
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 5 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-31.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART D
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesCBEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is After Midnight?

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 After Midnight hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 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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