When The Night Is Over · Lord Huron

81 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 96 BPM, 5:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 14-16 and 21-30 -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
WHEN THE NIGHT IS OVER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 1 is a fill and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS7ADCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When The Night Is Over?

96 BPM, in 6/4, 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 When The Night Is Over hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in When The Night Is Over?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

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