Night Changes · One Direction

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on snare, high tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-37, 64-73 and 75-80, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NIGHT CHANGES · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 75 keep time and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-80.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBS1S9C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Changes?

120 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 Night Changes hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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