Some Nights · Fun.

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-33, 42-57 and 70-77, and 1 more place -- 82% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SOME NIGHTS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 9 sections: 83 keep time and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-117.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1DS8S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Some Nights?

108 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 Some Nights hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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