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I Drove All Night · Cyndi Lauper

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Drove All Night on drums

149 bars, 8:29, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
8:29
DIFFICULTY
31/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-149.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-53, 74-94 and 102-107, and 4 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
I Drove All Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 73, 108, 109, 123 and 133.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-36 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 50-94 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 95-135 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Drove All Night?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Drove All Night hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 8:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Drove All Night?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 73, 108, 109, 123 and 133.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED