Lonely is the Night · Billy Squier

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-23, 25-29 and 39-44, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
LONELY IS THE NIGHT · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 36, 37, 38, 54 and 56.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 3 sections: 43 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-32.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1MFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lonely is the Night?

84 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 Lonely is the Night hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lonely is the Night?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 36, 37, 38, 54 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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