Howl At Midnight · Alternative Competition 6

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
15/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5 and 8-20 -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HOWL AT MIDNIGHT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 6.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 5 sections: 36 keep time, 1 is a fill, 7 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-41.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAS5DES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Howl At Midnight?

80 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 Howl At Midnight hard to play on drums?

15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Howl At Midnight?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 6.

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