Ballroom Blitz · Sweet

112 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-13 and 16-17, and 4 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BALLROOM BLITZ · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 12 sections: 96 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAFQIJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ballroom Blitz?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ballroom Blitz hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.

How many fills are in Ballroom Blitz?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

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