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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out · Morrissey

EXERCISE 3 OF 17
Groove B
101 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART A, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play There Is A Light That Never Goes Out on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-35 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED