Dana-Dan · Bloodywood

194 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-27, 77-81 and 169-171, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DANA-DAN · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 66, 128 and 190.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 190 · LANDS ON BAR 191
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 23 sections: 122 keep time, 4 are fills, 16 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-147.

PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART S21
OUTRO
14 groovesGNDCS21+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dana-Dan?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dana-Dan hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Dana-Dan?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 66, 128 and 190.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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