One Night Love Affair · Bryan Adams

141 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-23, and 6 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
ONE NIGHT LOVE AFFAIR · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 60, 68, 75 and 11 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 7 sections: 117 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEVFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Night Love Affair?

124 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 One Night Love Affair 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Love Affair?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 60, 68, 75 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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