Lonely Is The Night (with Solo) · Billy Squier

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-24, 40-45 and 73-75 -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
LONELY IS THE NIGHT (WITH SOLO) · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 53 and 5 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 34-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-78.

COUNT-IN
PART D
VERSE
CHORUS
PART D
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesCDSES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lonely Is The Night (with Solo)?

88 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 (with Solo) hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 (with Solo)?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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