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Some Nights · Fun.

Some Nights · Fun.
EXERCISE 11 OF 12
Join Chorus 3 to Break 2 (bars 76-78)
90 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, BREAK 2
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Some Nights on drums

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

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
26/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-65, silence through bars 66-69, toms through bars 70-77, silence through bars 78-85 and toms through bars 86-117.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-x-x-xxx-x-|
Some Nights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-66 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED