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Midnight Rider · Allman Brothers

Midnight Rider · Allman Brothers
EXERCISE 13 OF 22
Join Part F to Chorus 3 (bars 31-33)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Midnight Rider on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 3-69.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Midnight Rider -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-13 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-55 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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