Dance, Dance · Fall Out Boy

85 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 64 and 78-85 -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
DANCE, DANCE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 14, 23, 27, 33, 34, 35 and 8 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEAOCI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance, Dance?

114 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 Dance, Dance hard to play on drums?

60 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Dance, Dance?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 14, 23, 27, 33, 34, 35 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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