Southern Nights · Glen Campbell

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 8 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SOUTHERN NIGHTS · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 32, 40, 44 and 5 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 3 sections: 53 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesICAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Southern Nights?

95 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 Southern Nights hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Southern Nights?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 32, 40, 44 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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