Friend Of The Night · Mogwai

88 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 4:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19 and 29-40 -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
FRIEND OF THE NIGHT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 1 is a fill and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK
BREAK 2
6 groovesS8BDS6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Friend Of The Night?

108 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Friend Of The Night hard to play on drums?

37 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Friend Of The Night?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

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