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Night Crawler · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 17 OF 61
Groove K
151 / 265 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART E, OUTRO
PART E
PART I
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Crawler on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
265
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-43, toms through bars 44-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Night Crawler -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-48 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-120 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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