Night Goat · Melvins

164 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30, 32-46 and 72-78, and 8 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NIGHT GOAT · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 31, 55, 71, 79, 103 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 135-136 · LANDS ON BAR 137 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 15 sections: 110 keep time, 8 are fills, 14 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFOJCS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Goat?

140 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 Goat hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Night Goat?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 31, 55, 71, 79, 103 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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