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Big City Nights · Scorpions

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
CHORUS
PART B
BREAK 4
OUTRO
7 groovesFBS1S2S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big City Nights on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-76, snare through bars 77-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-142.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-24, and 14 more places -- 77.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 13 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-17 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-85 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Big City Nights?

140 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 Big City Nights hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Big City Nights?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 13 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED