Late In The Evening · Paul Simon

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-29 and 31-42, and 6 more places -- 89% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LATE IN THE EVENING · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 118.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 118
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars: 117 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-117.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Late In The Evening?

120 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 Late In The Evening hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Late In The Evening?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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