Dance Tonight · Paul McCartney

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-41 -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
DANCE TONIGHT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 57, 59 and 61.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 3 sections: 55 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-41.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesACS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance Tonight?

85 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 Tonight hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tonight?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 57, 59 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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