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Living After Midnight · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 12 OF 14
Play the whole song with the record
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living After Midnight on drums

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

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Living After Midnight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-52 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED