The Night I Drove Alone Drums · Citizen

21 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 0:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
21
LENGTH
0:40
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12 and 14-19 -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE NIGHT I DROVE ALONE DRUMS · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 13, 20 and 21.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 20-21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

21 bars across 2 sections: 13 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Night I Drove Alone Drums?

125 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 Night I Drove Alone Drums hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

21 bars, about 0:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 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 The Night I Drove Alone Drums?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 13, 20 and 21.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 21 BARS ANALYSED
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