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Lonely Is The Night (with Solo) · Billy Squier

EXERCISE 23 OF 35
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 52-81)
65 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lonely Is The Night (with Solo) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-53, snare through bars 54-55, hi-hat through bars 56-66, ride through bars 67-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x----x--|
Lonely Is The Night (with Solo) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-43 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-91 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Break 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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