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Wild Night · Van Morrison

EXERCISE 4 OF 46
Groove C -- Part C
63 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDEPNR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wild Night on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, ride through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-104, ride through bars 105-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-128.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Wild Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-74 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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