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Howl At Midnight · Alternative Competition 6

EXERCISE 13 OF 15
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 48-50)
45 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART S2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAS5DES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Howl At Midnight on drums

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.

15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
15/100

snare through bars 1-21, silence through bars 22-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-50 and silence through bars 51-68.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-xxx-----x-xxx-|
BD |x---------------|
Howl At Midnight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- A, D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-45 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED