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Those Nights · Skillet

EXERCISE 42 OF 45
Fill at bar 78 (a small one)
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0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Those Nights on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-47, snare through bars 48-51 and silence through bars 52-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x------xx-----|
Those Nights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-16 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-30 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-52 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 3 and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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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