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Dance, Dance V2 · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 39 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART L, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEALCI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance, Dance V2 on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-63, and 3 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 |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x---x--xx--|
Dance, Dance V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 23, 35, 43, 47, 51 and 3 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 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-40 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-52 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dance, Dance V2?

117 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 V2 hard to play on drums?

64 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 V2?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 23, 35, 43, 47, 51 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED