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DANCE WITH ME · blink-182

EXERCISE 8 OF 26
2-bar fill at bar 34 and 2 more
89 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKDHOG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DANCE WITH ME on drums

148 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-70, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x-----x-------|
DANCE WITH ME -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 34, 35, 74, 75, 114, 115 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-67 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 64-93 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-117 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is DANCE WITH ME?

200 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 WITH ME hard to play on drums?

60 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 WITH ME?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 34, 35, 74, 75, 114, 115 and 1 more.

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