Living After Midnight · Judas Priest

116 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 10-12 and 18-19, and 24 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 7 sections: 107 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living After Midnight?

135 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 Living After Midnight hard to play on drums?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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 Living After Midnight?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

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