Those Nights · Skillet

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 30-34, and 9 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THOSE NIGHTS · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 14, 15, 19, 23, 24 and 17 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 11 sections: 38 keep time, 23 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-13.

PART B
BREAK
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHNEBS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Those Nights?

90 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 Those Nights hard to play on drums?

47 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Those Nights?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 14, 15, 19, 23, 24 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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