Dance With Me · Orleans

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 27 and 29-30, and 4 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DANCE WITH ME · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 31, 48, 51, 55 and 72.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 72
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 9 sections: 40 keep time, 5 are fills, 4 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-71.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHCS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance With Me?

100 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 With Me hard to play on drums?

32 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 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 5 times: bars 31, 48, 51, 55 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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