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Dance Dance · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 32 OF 41
Join Part Q to Outro (bars 64-66)
80 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEAQCOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance Dance on drums

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

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-27, snare through bars 28-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-43, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 28-31 and 64, and 1 more place -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 23, 27, 35, 43, 47 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-37 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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?

57 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 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dance Dance?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 23, 27, 35, 43, 47 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED