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The Night · Disturbed

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLIEJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Night on drums

216 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-12 and toms through bars 13-16, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-62, 65-70 and 121-126, and 5 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |------------x---|
FT |----x-----------|
BD |x---------x-----|
The Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- L, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-60 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-99 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 108-165 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Night?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Night hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Night?

5 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED