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Lonely is the Night · Billy Squier

EXERCISE 7 OF 14
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
39 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1MFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lonely is the Night on drums

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

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-54, snare through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-65.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x----x--|
Lonely is the Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C, M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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