Wild Night · Van Morrison

128 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 19-23 and 26, and 6 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
WILD NIGHT · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 24, 48, 127 and 128.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 127-128 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 15 sections: 99 keep time, 5 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-96.

PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDEPNR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild Night?

144 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 Wild Night hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 Wild Night?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 24, 48, 127 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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