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Dance With Me · Bruno Mars

EXERCISE 28 OF 32
Run D3 · Outro (bars 93-97)
99 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART A
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCRDAJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance With Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-40, ride through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-50, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.....2.....3.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---------x--------|
BD |x--------------x--|
Dance With Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-46 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-60 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-76 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-97 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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