Living For Tonight · Accept

123 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-16 and 18-24, and 7 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LIVING FOR TONIGHT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 35, 36, 62, 63, 86, 87 and 9 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 94 keep time, 16 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living For Tonight?

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 For Tonight 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Living For Tonight?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 35, 36, 62, 63, 86, 87 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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