Midnight Sun (Black Sails In The Sunset Secret Song) · AFI

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 30-36 and 46, and 2 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
MIDNIGHT SUN (BLACK SAILS IN THE SUNSET SECRET SONG) · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 21, 29, 37, 45, 59 and 1 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEALO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnight Sun (Black Sails In The Sunset Secret Song)?

90 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 Sun (Black Sails In The Sunset Secret Song) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 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 Sun (Black Sails In The Sunset Secret Song)?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 21, 29, 37, 45, 59 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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