Last Night · Ricky Montgomery

135 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 16 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
LAST NIGHT · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 60, 76, 80, 92, 108 and 6 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 9 sections: 104 keep time, 14 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKAFVD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Night?

138 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 Last Night hard to play on drums?

53 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?

135 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

How many fills are in Last Night?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 60, 76, 80, 92, 108 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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