Hey Tonight · Creedence Clearwater Revival

79 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 27 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
HEY TONIGHT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 28, 52 and 56.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 5 sections: 65 keep time, 4 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-79.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Tonight?

126 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 Hey 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hey Tonight?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 28, 52 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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