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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

95 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

70

LENGTH

2:57

DIFFICULTY

67/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, snare through bars 41-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-70.

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-xo--xo--xo--xo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- I, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
2. Through Part A and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.