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Because the night · Patti Smith

EXERCISE 20 OF 50
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 49-51)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART E
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFOIS1R+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Because the night on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, snare through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-45, snare through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-56, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Because the night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F, O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-63 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 54-74 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-92 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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