Hardest Part Is The Night · Bon Jovi

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 18-20 and 22-24, and 15 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
HARDEST PART IS THE NIGHT · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 28, 37, 46, 48, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 9 sections: 79 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-114.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART O
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCOS1A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hardest Part Is The Night?

105 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 Hardest Part Is The Night 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Hardest Part Is The Night?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 28, 37, 46, 48, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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