Night Shift · Lucy Dacus

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 60-62 and 67, and 6 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
NIGHT SHIFT · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 69, 70 and 102.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 6 sections: 72 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-97.

PART B
PART C
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Shift?

88 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 Shift hard to play on drums?

36 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shift?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 69, 70 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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