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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

90 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

67

LENGTH

2:56

DIFFICULTY

73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-35, snare through bars 36-37, ride through bars 38-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-61 and snare through bars 62-67.

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.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x---------------|
HH |----------------|--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|xx-xxx--xx-xxx--|

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

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H, A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 18-37 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Bars 34-51 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.