Night Crawler · Judas Priest

265 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 5:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
265
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-19, 46-47 and 49-51, and 11 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
NIGHT CRAWLER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 60, 76, 84 and 15 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

265 bars across 17 sections: 157 keep time, 21 are fills, 19 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 227-247.

PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
PART Q
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCES13IQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Crawler?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Night Crawler hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

265 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Night Crawler?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 60, 76, 84 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 265 BARS ANALYSED
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