NightSky · Kamelot

107 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 12 and 34-40, and 6 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
NIGHTSKY · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 32, 33, 41, 49, 51 and 11 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 70 keep time, 17 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBGS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is NightSky?

128 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 NightSky hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 NightSky?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 32, 33, 41, 49, 51 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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