Nightingale Lane · Raye

104 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 62 BPM, 4:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-15, and 19 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 62 BPM
NIGHTINGALE LANE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 55 and 63.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time, 3 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-85.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAHGDS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nightingale Lane?

62 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Nightingale Lane hard to play on drums?

34 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Nightingale Lane?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 55 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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