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I Love The Nightlife · Alicia Bridges

I Love The Nightlife · Alicia Bridges
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Love The Nightlife on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-113, silence through bars 114-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-178.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-20 and 22-25, and 8 more places -- 91.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 26, 27, 38, 59, 60 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Love The Nightlife?

128 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 I Love The Nightlife hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 I Love The Nightlife?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 26, 27, 38, 59, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED