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Hey Tonight · Creedence Clearwater Revival

EXERCISE 16 OF 16
Hold Groove B for 8 bars -- Outro 2 (bars 48-55)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey Tonight on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-79.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Hey Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-29 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 5 minutes. Open above.
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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