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Dance with STEEL BALL RUN · Yugo Kanno

EXERCISE 9 OF 59
Groove B -- Part B
50 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance with STEEL BALL RUN on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 2-13, toms through bars 14-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-22, silence through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37 and ride through bars 38-45, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxoxxxoxxxoxxxox|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Dance with STEEL BALL RUN -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- P -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-64 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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