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Tonight · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 3 OF 24
Groove O -- Outro 2
25 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGODS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tonight on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 28 and 32-33, and 4 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 29, 30, 40, 55, 56 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tonight?

88 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 Tonight 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tonight?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 29, 30, 40, 55, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED