Nightcall · Kavinsky

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

Electronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-95 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
NIGHTCALL · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 2 sections: 90 keep time, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-81.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nightcall?

90 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 Nightcall hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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