All Day And All Of The Night · The Kinks

77 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-21, 31-33 and 35, and 9 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
ALL DAY AND ALL OF THE NIGHT · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 30, 34, 36, 45, 47 and 6 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-22.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDABKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Day And All Of The Night?

138 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 All Day And All Of The Night hard to play on drums?

50 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in All Day And All Of The Night?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 30, 34, 36, 45, 47 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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