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Dance Macabre · Ghost

EXERCISE 13 OF 37
Groove I
85 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECHQB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance Macabre on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-31, snare through bars 32-33 and ride through bars 34-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 34-36, and 13 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Dance Macabre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 31, 32, 33, 55, 56 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-66 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dance Macabre?

126 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 Macabre hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Macabre?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 31, 32, 33, 55, 56 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED