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Dance, Dance · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove A -- Part A
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
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, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 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
60/100

snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-19, ride through bars 20-27, toms through bars 28-32, ride through bars 33-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-43, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--F---F---F---F-|
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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-29 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-36 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-44 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-66 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 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?

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.

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