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Night Moves · Bob Seger

EXERCISE 22 OF 34
Fill at bar 76
102 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS7S1BS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Moves on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-87, silence through bars 88-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-155.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Night Moves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-116 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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