Dance · Motörhead

72 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 17, and 8 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
DANCE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 24, 36, 44 and 1 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 16 sections: 44 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-72.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEGS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance?

115 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 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dance?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 24, 36, 44 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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