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All Night Long · Rainbow

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECHFS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Night Long on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-35, toms through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-66 and toms through bars 67-74, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-28, 44-50 and 52-58, and 2 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
All Night Long -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 35, 39, 43 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 2-16 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-40 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-67 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-76 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is All Night Long?

128 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 Night Long hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in All Night Long?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 35, 39, 43 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED