Midnight In Harlem · Tedeschi Trucks Band

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 22-27 and 46-48, and 2 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
MIDNIGHT IN HARLEM · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 94 and 102.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
8 groovesBCDGF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnight In Harlem?

77 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 In Harlem hard to play on drums?

57 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Midnight In Harlem?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 94 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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