Midnight Highway · Accept

129 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
129
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 15 and 27-32, and 11 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 17, 33, 37 and 17 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 23 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-109.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIABJRS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnight Highway?

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 Midnight Highway hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Midnight Highway?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 17, 33, 37 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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