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Night Shift · Lucy Dacus

Night Shift · Lucy Dacus
EXERCISE 19 OF 19
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Shift on drums

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

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, ride through bars 28-37, silence through bars 38-55, ride through bars 56-59 and snare through bars 60-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Night Shift -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-37 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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