Tonight · Social Distortion

111 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-32, 45-47 and 49-51, and 6 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
TONIGHT · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 48, 52, 80 and 7 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 84-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 8 sections: 84 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGCJES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tonight?

110 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?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tonight?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 48, 52, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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