Stay Up Late · Talking Heads

105 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 26 and 28, and 12 more places -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
STAY UP LATE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 77.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 6 sections: 98 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-61.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stay Up Late?

111 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 Stay Up Late hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stay Up Late?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Talking Heads drum parts

EVERY TALKING HEADS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →