Wild Nights · John Cougar Mellencamp

124 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25-30 and 41-55, and 3 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
WILD NIGHTS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 9 sections: 115 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wild Nights?

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 Nights hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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