One Night In The City · Ronnie James Dio

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 25, and 8 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ONE NIGHT IN THE CITY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 34 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 63 keep time, 40 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-43.

PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART X
PART AE
PART AQ
PART AU
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMAEAUHI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Night In The City?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 One Night In The City hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in One Night In The City?

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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