In The Midnight Hour · Wilson Pickett

70 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 5-14 and 19-21, and 3 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-64.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Midnight Hour?

112 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 In The Midnight Hour hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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