Night Stalkers · Megadeth

291 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 14 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
NIGHT STALKERS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 9, 17, 33, 37, 40, 41 and 58 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

291 bars across 17 sections: 170 keep time, 64 are fills, 18 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-140.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AD
BREAK
PART S13
CHORUS 4
10 groovesDOIS12AD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Night Stalkers?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Night Stalkers hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

291 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 21 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 Stalkers?

33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 9, 17, 33, 37, 40, 41 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 291 BARS ANALYSED
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