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Wild Nights · John Cougar Mellencamp

EXERCISE 15 OF 18
Join Part C to Outro (bars 107-109)
122 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wild Nights on drums

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.

51 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
124
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-78, snare through bars 79-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-124.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-82 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 79-106 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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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