Night Moves · Bob Seger

155 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-27 and 30-31, and 19 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
NIGHT MOVES · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 32, 34, 38, 58, 62 and 8 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 8 sections: 91 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-154.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS7S1BS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Moves?

119 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 Moves 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Moves?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 32, 34, 38, 58, 62 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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