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Opening Night · Arctic Monkeys, War Child Records

Opening Night · Arctic Monkeys, War Child Records
EXERCISE 8 OF 34
Groove E -- Part E
68 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E, PART F
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART F
PART I
PART E
CHORUS
8 groovesCFBS1E+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Opening Night on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-37, ride through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-78, ride through bars 79-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-92, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-43, 46-47 and 50-51, and 5 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Opening Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 92, 121, 125 and 127.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 42-70 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-94 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 117-129 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Opening Night?

122 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 Opening Night hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Opening Night?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 92, 121, 125 and 127.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED