The Midnight Train (To Georgia) · Gladys Knight And The Pips

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 4:42 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-20, and 13 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN (TO GEORGIA) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 105.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 2 sections: 102 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-104.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Midnight Train (To Georgia)?

89 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 The Midnight Train (To Georgia) 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Midnight Train (To Georgia)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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