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We Own The Night · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
4-bar fill at bar 17 and 3 more
18 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART F, PART S7
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
PART K
PART N
PART S
PART S7
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS10FS1NS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Own The Night on drums

145 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 235 BPM, 3:13 of playing on crash, ride, 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
235 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27, snare through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and ride through bars 33-44, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 55-56 and 59 -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----------|
SD |x-----x-----x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x-----x-----x---------|
We Own The Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-76 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Own The Night?

235 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is We Own The Night 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 We Own The Night?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED