Everybody Have Fun Tonight · Wang Chung

133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-24, and 28 more places -- 67.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
EVERYBODY HAVE FUN TONIGHT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 37, 43, 49, 66 and 110.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars: 125 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-109.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everybody Have Fun Tonight?

130 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 Everybody Have Fun Tonight hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Everybody Have Fun Tonight?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 37, 43, 49, 66 and 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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