Midnight Sky · Miley Cyrus

96 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-15, 21-35 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 78.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
MIDNIGHT SKY · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 36, 52 and 84.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time, 4 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
PART F
OUTRO
VERSE 5
7 groovesCS10FS1S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnight Sky?

110 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 Sky hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Sky?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 36, 52 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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