Midnight Rider · Allman Brothers

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 25-28 and 33-36, and 4 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
MIDNIGHT RIDER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 67.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-51.

VERSE
PART C
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
OUTRO
5 groovesDECFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnight Rider?

96 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 Rider 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Midnight Rider?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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