There Is A Light That Never Goes Out · Morrissey

134 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 37 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 6 sections: 128 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-60.

PART C
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is There Is A Light That Never Goes Out?

132 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 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out hard to play on drums?

51 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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