Nights Like These · Benson Boone

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 34-36, and 4 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
NIGHTS LIKE THESE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 61.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesBAEFS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nights Like These?

96 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 Like These hard to play on drums?

40 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Nights Like These?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 61.

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