Dance with STEEL BALL RUN · Yugo Kanno

154 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 46-53 and 142-147 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DANCE WITH STEEL BALL RUN · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 22 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 22 sections: 87 keep time, 29 are fills, 12 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-89.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AF
PART AL
PART AQ
OUTRO
19 groovesPAFBAQAL+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance with STEEL BALL RUN?

150 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 STEEL BALL RUN hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 STEEL BALL RUN?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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