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Tonight (Demo) · Amira Elfeky

EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
65 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 70 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBDS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tonight (Demo) on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, 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
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-51, snare through bars 52-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 17 and 25, and 3 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Tonight (Demo) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-57 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Tonight (Demo)?

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 Tonight (Demo) 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tonight (Demo)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED