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Last Night · Ricky Montgomery

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove K -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Night on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-39, snare through bars 40-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-122, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- K, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-52 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-61 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-99 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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