The Night We Met · Lord Huron

34 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 1:02 of playing on ride, snare and high tom.

Country / FolkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
34
LENGTH
1:02
DIFFICULTY
16/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 5 more places -- 73.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
THE NIGHT WE MET · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 34.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 34
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

34 bars across 2 sections: 29 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-33.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Night We Met?

87 BPM, in 3/4, 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 We Met hard to play on drums?

16 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

34 bars, about 1:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and high tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in The Night We Met?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 34.

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