Nights · Frank Ocean

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
14/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23 and 33-70 -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
NIGHTS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 100 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-70.

PART C
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEFDCB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nights?

80 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 Nights hard to play on drums?

14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, 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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