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We Damn The Night · Helloween

EXERCISE 11 OF 56
Groove E
90 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART I
PART L
PART G
PART P
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesDIGLP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Damn The Night on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-49 and ride through bars 50-53, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
We Damn The Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 37, 41 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 14-29 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-42 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Damn The Night?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 We Damn The Night hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 We Damn The Night?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 37, 41 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED