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Friend Of The Night · Mogwai

EXERCISE 11 OF 15
Join Part D to Break (bars 47-49)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, BREAK
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Friend Of The Night on drums

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

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48, silence through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-59 and silence through bars 60-88.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-x-----------x---|
BD |x---------x-x-----x-----|
Friend Of The Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-32 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-60 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED