Slap In The Night · Axel News

58 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 13-17 and 34-38, and 1 more place -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SLAP IN THE NIGHT · BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 7 sections: 47 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-17.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBAFGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slap In The Night?

120 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 Slap In The Night hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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