Tonight, Tonight · Smashing Pumpkins

154 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-16, 24 and 73-95 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
TONIGHT, TONIGHT · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 51, 60 and 11 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 10 sections: 113 keep time, 17 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-50.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART L
6 groovesIBELS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tonight, Tonight?

148 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, Tonight hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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, Tonight?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 51, 60 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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