Dance With Me · Bruno Mars

110 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 91 BPM, 3:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 11-23 and 25-39, and 2 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 91 BPM
DANCE WITH ME · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 48, 56, 69 and 5 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 69-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 95-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART A
PART R
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCRDAJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance With Me?

91 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 With Me hard to play on drums?

49 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 24, 40, 48, 56, 69 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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