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Night Changes · One Direction

EXERCISE 5 OF 13
Join Chorus to Part B (bars 36-38)
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0 / 13 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
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
GROOVE · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Changes on drums

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

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
17/100

silence through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-48, snare through bars 49-54 and silence through bars 55-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Night Changes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 34-55 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED