Night Sprite · Chick Corea

174 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 11 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
NIGHT SPRITE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 24, 52, 53, 54, 66, 67 and 69 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 52-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 11 sections: 81 keep time and 75 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-23.

PART C
PART K
PART C
PART Z
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAICCLKZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Sprite?

146 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 Sprite hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Night Sprite?

5 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 24, 52, 53, 54, 66, 67 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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