Late Nights & Heartbreak · Hannah Williams & The Affirmations

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-32 and 52-54, and 1 more place -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
LATE NIGHTS & HEARTBREAK · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 72, 73, 79 and 80.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 79-80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 9 sections: 43 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-35.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
BREAK
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDS2IME+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Late Nights & Heartbreak?

80 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 Nights & Heartbreak hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Late Nights & Heartbreak?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 72, 73, 79 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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