Because the night · Patti Smith

103 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 10 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BECAUSE THE NIGHT · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 23, 48, 49, 53, 57 and 12 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-38.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFOIS1R+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Because the night?

124 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 Because the night 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Because the night?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 23, 48, 49, 53, 57 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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