Still Of The Night · Whitesnake

166 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 6:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 18-24 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
STILL OF THE NIGHT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 32, 33, 43 and 13 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 16 sections: 106 keep time, 19 are fills and 31 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-84.

PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART N
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesDKXBN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Of The Night?

104 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 Still Of The Night hard to play on drums?

61 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Still Of The Night?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 32, 33, 43 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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