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Still Of The Night · Whitesnake

EXERCISE 27 OF 53
Run N1 · Part N (bars 85-100)
120 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Of The Night on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-60 and ride through bars 61-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Still Of The Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D, K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-53 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-88 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-127 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 121-135 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 126-138 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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