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Stay Up Late · Talking Heads

EXERCISE 13 OF 16
Run F1 · Part F (bars 74-77)
103 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stay Up Late on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-105.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Stay Up Late -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 58-78 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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