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Dance · Motörhead

EXERCISE 11 OF 19
Join Part E to Part G (bars 11-13)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance on drums

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

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 3-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-72.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------------x---|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx--x---|
Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-13 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-52 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

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