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Spanish Nights · Ritchie Blackmore

EXERCISE 7 OF 26
Groove H -- Part H
145 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spanish Nights on drums

178 bars, 11:50, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
11:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-14, hi-hat through bars 15-17, toms through bars 18-31, hi-hat through bars 32-54 and toms through bars 55-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-14, 18-19 and 49-53, and 9 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    106
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----------------------|
SD |------------------x-----|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Spanish Nights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 55, 109, 110, 168 and 175.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 28-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-111 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Spanish Nights?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Spanish Nights hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 11:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Spanish Nights?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 55, 109, 110, 168 and 175.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED