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Hardest Part Is The Night · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 35 OF 36
Play the whole song with the record
98 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 114 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCOS1A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hardest Part Is The Night on drums

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.

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
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-62 and snare through bars 63-65, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hardest Part Is The Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-69 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-91 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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