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Dance, Kid, Dance · Shinedown

EXERCISE 5 OF 41
Groove C -- Outro 2
68 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBCIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance, Kid, Dance on drums

147 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-21, silence through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-61, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 11 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 32, 48, 52, 60, 72 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-72 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-57 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-96 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dance, Kid, Dance?

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

Is Dance, Kid, Dance hard to play on drums?

45 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?

147 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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, Kid, Dance?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 32, 48, 52, 60, 72 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED