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In The Midnight Hour · Wilson Pickett

EXERCISE 3 OF 17
Groove A -- Part A
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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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Midnight Hour on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 1-40, snare through bars 41-64 and ride through bars 65-70.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
In The Midnight Hour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 20-44 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-68 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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