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Night Stalkers · Megadeth

EXERCISE 27 OF 107
Fill at bar 58
158 / 291 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART O
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 33
LAND · 33
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Night Stalkers on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-39, snare through bars 40-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-58, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-56 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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