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Night Goat · Melvins

EXERCISE 26 OF 39
Hold Groove O for 8 bars -- Part O (bars 105-112)
132 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFOJCS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Goat on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

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

silence through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-22, hi-hat through bars 23-47, toms through bars 48-55, hi-hat through bars 56-57 and snare through bars 58-63, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-67 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 105-129 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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