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Midnight Highway · Accept

EXERCISE 28 OF 55
Fill at bar 37 and 69
108 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Midnight Highway on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-80, snare through bars 81-82, hi-hat through bars 83-88 and ride through bars 89-94, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Midnight Highway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J, I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-38 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 52-69 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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