Midnite Cruiser · Steely Dan

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14-17 and 21-23, and 8 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 99 BPM
MIDNITE CRUISER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 58, 59, 71, 80 and 98.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 99 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-70.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADCNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnite Cruiser?

99 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 Midnite Cruiser hard to play on drums?

51 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Midnite Cruiser?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 58, 59, 71, 80 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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